Is this the price we pay for an "open society" where all our dirty laundry is aired and a microscrope applied to the most secret areas of our government?Or is it just plain nuts to spill our secrets all over the press and give our intel pros the idea that someone is constantly looking over their shoulder?The CIA thinks that the brouhaha over torture has made it next to impossible to do the job we are asking them to do; interrogate terrorsts to try and discover their plans.Walter Pincus has the story at the Washington Post:Battered by recriminations over waterboarding and other harsh techniques sanctioned by the Bush administration, the CIA is girding itself for more public scrutiny and is questioning whether agency personnel can conduct interrogations effectively under rules set out for the U.S. military, according to senior intelligence officials. Harsh interrogations were only one part of its clandestine activities against al-Qaeda and other enemies, and agency members are...(Read Full Post)