That Dog Won't Hunt

Obama didn't need Bo. He already had a dog: a wide ranging call for national security secrets.

CIA director Leon Panetta argued in a statement that releasing the material "could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security by informing our enemies of what we knew about them, and when, and in some instances, how we obtained the intelligence we possessed."

Panetta wrote that the "disclosure of explicit details of specific interrogations" would give al-Qaeda "propaganda it could use to recruit and raise funds." He called it "ready-made ammunition."

An ACLU lawyer told the Post that Panetta is in effect arguing: "The greater the abuse, the more important it is that it should remain secret."

  TPM

It was my understanding that the government is free to redact any specific language that would be a national security problem when releasing documents. I would think redacting specifics of how we obtained intelligence would be acceptable – unless the “how” was torture, in which case, “our enemies” are already well aware of that, so there's no need for redaction there.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.