Bill Burck and Dana Perino have found an amicus brief in the Padilla case one Eric Holder filed. It concedes that sometimes you have to do a little national-security sacrificing when defending terrorist detainees. It might not be shocking that he’d sign on to such an argument, given it’s effectively how we seem to be operating now. But it certainly is news that he didn’t disclose it during the confirmation battle.

I think Andy McCarthy would have been delighted to have been ultimately proven over-concerned about the Holder tenure back during those confirmation battles. But that’s definitely not the discovery we’re all making now.

Read the latest Burck/Perino here.