Overreaction to Abu Ghraib

THE shrill wrangling over the treatment of insur gents and terrorists de tained in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay has taken a frightening but predictable turn: Restrictions on interviewing techniques have hindered intelligence-gathering.
And you can't connect the dots if you don't first collect the dots.

"Everything's on hold," said a former CIA official aware of the agency's suspension of extraordinary interrogation tactics. "The whole thing has been stopped until we sort out whether we are sure we're on legal ground," the ex-spy added in the June 27 Washington Post.

War on Terror or a Tea Party?