Topic: Decline of the West
That's good advice when you find yourself in a dank and deepening hole. And as this op-ed piece by Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan in the Wall Street Journal demonstrates, the President finds himself in precisely that position as regards the Bush Administration's "torture" of Islamofascist terrorists.
Hoekstra, who is the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, makes a suggestion that must surely strike fear in the hearts of his Democratic colleagues:
Members of Congress calling for an investigation of the enhanced interrogation program should remember that such an investigation can't be a selective review of information, or solely focus on the lawyers who wrote the memos, or the low-level employees who carried out this program. I have asked Mr. Blair to provide me with a list of the dates, locations and names of all members of Congress who attended briefings on enhanced interrogation techniques.
That's what is known in naval parlance as a shot across the bow. Mr. President, drop that shovel!
