Jonah Goldberg's Take on the CIA "Flap"

A must read, it echoes my comments from earlier in the week. Isn't this what we expected the CIA to be doing?

Frankly, I don’t get it. Democratic leaders in Congress think it’s outrageous they were never told about a program that was never put into effect. The only potential scandal I can see is that the program was never put into effect — and that we’re telling the whole world about it.

Call me crazy, but I just assumed that the CIA was out there trying to kill as many senior members of al-Qaeda as it could. Congress, in the spirit of broad patriotic bipartisan righteousness, authorized the use of force on al-Qaeda after it killed 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. Now we find out that the CIA lacked the competence or will to hunt down and kill men desperately in need of killing.

It’s as if, years after Pearl Harbor, it was reported that the OSS had never tried to kill senior Japanese or German officials.