Andrew Cohen raises 10 issues related to the CIA’s bad week. Here’s the one that interests me:
5. The aforementioned [Eric] Holder now is truly caught between legal and political pincers—to prosecute or not, to look backward or forward– and how he handles that tension will go a long way in determining the rest of his tenure as Attorney General as well as his long-term legacy. Will he point to the new policies as political cover for legal inaction? And if he does will the Administration’s allies on the left ever forgive them?
Well, will we?
