The New York Sun editorial board noticed the important revelation buried in David Ignatius's Washington Post column. Ignatius wrote:Take the question of targeting bomb makers: There may be an unlimited supply of explosives in Iraq, but there is not an unlimited supply of people who know how to wire the detonators. In 2004, CIA operatives in Iraq believed that they had identified the signatures of 11 bomb makers. They proposed a diabolical -- but potentially effective -- sabotage program that would have flooded Iraq with booby-trapped detonators designed to explode in the bomb makers' hands. But the CIA general counsel's office said no. The lawyers claimed that the agency lacked authority for such an operation, one source recalled.We see once again that lawyers are said to be dictating policy. A program which might have crippled the ability of the enemy to kill our soldiers (for whom the Left sheds so many tears) was nixed by lawyers. This is scandalous, and immediate presidential...(Read Full Post)