Obama’s False Colors Victory Lap

From Larry J. Sabato, CNN:

Now President Obama is being reproached for taking too much credit for the success during his re-election campaign. Sen. John McCain called it “cheap” and “a pathetic, political act of self-congratulation.” Democrats responded by questioning whether Mitt Romney would have gone after bin Laden, since he had criticized the expenditure of so much money to catch one person. Romney retorted that of course he would have grabbed bin Laden, adding that “even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.” America’s emotional high point in the last couple of years has become just one more partisan football.

Dumbo b/k/a Barack Obama loves to blame all his many problems on somebody else, especially George W. Bush.   Welcome back Paul,  from Paul Mirengoff,  Powerline:

According to[CIA veteran Jose] Rodriguez, the initial breakthrough in finding bin Laden occurred when a captured terrorist revealed that bin Laden was relying on a lone courier to communicate with his organization. The captured terrorist also revealed the pseudonym of that courier. Armed with these revelations, the CIA eventually was able to discover the true identity of bin Laden’s courier, locate the courier, and, through him, track down bin Laden.

But the captured terrorist did not give up information about the courier voluntarily. He gave it up, after initially refusing to cooperate, under the duress of “enhanced interrogation techniques” (but not waterboarding). And he did so at a secret CIA prison, or “black site.”

Before becoming president, Obama criticized the use of enhanced interrogation techniques and black sites. On the second full day of his presidency, he banned such methods and ordered the black sites closed.

If left to  his own devices, Dumbo would have lacked the  actionable intelligence to capture Usama bin Laden or anybody.    In other words, without Bush’s policy  of capturing  high value suspects and subjecting them to enhanced interrogation, there would be no victory lap.

In effect, it is Obama’s policy to kill terrorist suspects, rather than capture them.   There simply is no point to capturing a potential treasure trove of information only to hand them over to Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, have them read their rights and be provided with a lawyer.

To our leftarded friends, was it moral of Dumbo to take action on intelligence he deemed obtained through torture?