More on this thread from yesterday. Our lawyers’ lawyer David Rivkin makes the critical point that “none of the usual reasons that counsel against the disclosure of intra-Executive Branch legal advice are present here.” Brother David elaborates, “There is no classified information involved, there is no internal back-and-forth among different agencies (e.g., Justice Department, Defense Department) that would reveal how they had tackled this issue, there are no law-enforcement or investigatory issues on which disclosure would have a negative impact, etc. In short, given the Left’s past howls about the need to avoid the creation of ‘secret law’ by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel — an issue I testified about repeatedly during the Bush years — the Obama administration’s position is staggering.”

David’s right, of course. I’d only add that, during the Bush years, even when those considerations obviously were in play, the Left said they were not good enough reasons to suppress information on issues of great public importance. But now, under Obama rules, we have to tell al-Qaeda what our interrogation tactics are but we can’t tell the American people why the Obama administration has made a political determination to support a pro-Chavez thug at the expense of Honduras’s rule of law.