QUOTE OF THE DAY - AT 8:41 A.M. ET:    Former CIA director and member of Congress Porter Goss, on the claim by some Dems in Congress that they didn't know about enhanced interrogation techniques.  From the Washington Post:

Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.

COMMENT:  Right on.  If the Democrats force an investigation of Bush-era appointees, it can blow up right in their collective faces.  There are records of those congressional briefings, and attendance was taken.

This is a test case:  Can the Democrats control the left wing of their party?  So far, the record isn't encouraging.  We may get a "truth commission," a term the leftists like to use to compare us to South Africa, which had a truth commission after apartheid came down.  The commission can tear the country apart, and damage us further before other countries, something the left would dearly love to do.

April 25, 2009