WE ARE STILL AT WAR - AT 10:46 A.M. ET:   From The Politico:

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden warned Sunday morning that intelligence officers will be constrained operationally as a direct consequence of the White House’s decision to release Justice Department memos detailing interrogation techniques.

Calling the matter of CIA interrogation “the real inconvenient truth,” Hayden told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that he had argued his case against releasing the memos with several senior officials in the Obama Administration.

“At the tactical level,” Hayden said, “what we have described for our enemies in the midst of the war are the outer limits that any American would go to in terms of interrogating an Al Qaeda terrorists.”

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“You are going to have this agency, on the front line of defending you in this current war, playing back from the line,” Hayden said, suggesting that agents would feel constrained by the possibility of their actions being second-guessed by The New York Times, the ACLU (which filed the suit that led to the release of the memos), future presidential candidates, and others.

COMMENT:  A little maturity in the midst of all the adolescent angst of today's Washington.  I wish that, sometimes, some of the critics of the Bush administration would think of their own families as potential victims of a terror attack.  How would they feel about the CIA, and others on the front line, if their families' lives were involved?

April 19, 2009