From last night’s “All-Stars.”

On the CIA’s secret program to target al-Qaeda leaders:

We are doing targeted assassinations every day from the Predators. This is an alternate way to do it on the ground with teams of guys. That would have been legitimate.
But from your reporting, it wasn’t a program. It was an idea. It didn’t rise to the level of having it briefed to the president, why would you say it had to be briefed to the Congress? I don’t understand the logic here.
And secondly, there is the issue of leaking. If it was a live program–again, we’re talking here in the shadows, because we’re getting leaks from every side, and nobody really knows what was involved here–but if it was a real program, or at least getting off the ground, and it is something you really would want to keep hidden–targeted assassinations is not something you want to trumpet–the leaks we have had in the last weeks tell you how much of a sieve Congress is and how unreliable it is, and how we ought to keep restricted the number of people in Congress who get information, because they cannot hold it.

On Eric Holder possibly appointing a prosecutor to investigate Bush-era interrogation techniques:

If he does this, it is a terrible mistake. What we heard today, that [the special prosecutor] will only be for rogue interrogators who went outside the law–presumably, you know, [for] sadists who wanted to have a good time out of the rubric of interrogation. I’m not sure there are a lot of those.
What will happen is once you appoint a prosecutor, as we know from past history, he’s out of control. There are no limits on what he or she can do. And that means it will not stop with the rogue interrogator. It will go all the way to lawyers. It will go up to politicians.
And what this would be would be a criminalization of policy differences with a previous administration in the middle of two wars–in a way that will create open warfare (a) with the CIA, and (b) between Democrats and Republicans. This is a declaration of war if it…does actually come to pass.