Obama has the CIA’s back — in his sights
Democrat’s attack on covert anti-terror plan won’t please Americans
By John R. Bolton

The Obama administration ignores this widespread and entirely understandable thinking at its peril. When and where clandestine operations, including assassinations, can be effective is obviously a difficult question but it is one that has to be answered based on the circumstances presented, not through partisan arguments couched at the bumper-sticker level. In fact, unlike the administration, most Americans probably were more surprised and distressed that the CIA assassination plan was never implemented than that it existed.

That is why leaking the program and attributing its “suppression” from public knowledge to former Vice President Dick Cheney and then launching full-scale congressional investigations are actions Mr. Obama and his supporters soon will regret.