Over at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft has posted video of exiting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discussing on television today how enhanced interrogation techniques led to the capture of Osama bin Laden.

My recollection of Osama’s death is dominated by memories of the spontaneous pep rally that occurred at the White House that night. As happy as I was to hear the news that we’d gotten him, the public reaction struck me as rather bloodthirsty and embarrassing. Yes, this was a man who inflicted massive suffering on our fellow Americans, but it would be difficult to imagine such fist-pumping over, say, the death sentence once carried out on Timothy McVeigh, or any other lawful killing of a mass-murdering fugitive. At some point, someone has to make clear that justice and vengeance are two very different ideas, no matter how related they may seem. The former does not permit all of the means that can be used to achieve the latter.