David Broder has this column today in the WaPo.
Cheney is not wrong when he asserts that it is a dangerous precedent when a change in power in Washington leads a successor government not just to change the policies of its predecessors but to invoke the criminal justice system against them.
Leon Panetta, the conscientious director of the Central Intelligence Agency who, earlier in his government career, resigned to protest the policies of the Nixon administration in which he was serving, has disagreed with Holder's decision. He says it will have a harmful effect on the morale and operations of his agency, which has already taken strong steps to correct the policies he inherited.
On a wordsmithy note, why did Broder write "Cheney is not wrong" rather than "Cheney is right"? As a matter of digital logic, where everything is simply true or false, the two are identical. In the analog realm, there is a different nuance. Maybe Broder couldn't bring himself to write "Cheney is right." Maybe his keyboard delivered an electric shock to the fingertips when he tried. We'll probably never know.
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