I cannot highly enough recommend Sunday’s op-ed in the Washington Post by the former CIA director, General Mike Hayden. It is a succinct accounting of the wages of having the Justice Department, and, specifically, the attorney general, make national-security decisions in wartime. Those decisions, the general shows, are being made more on the basis of left-wing political calculations (which always regard intelligence collection and the pursuit of American interests with suspicion) than on what America’s safety requires and what the law maximally permits U.S. intelligence to do in wartime.

I’ll have more to say about it soon.