The administration had two duties regarding the underwear bomber interrogation; to get all the info possible, and to avoid unnecessarily demoralizing the citizenry on the entirely avoidable basis of having raised the question that is so rare we almost cannot even think of it: “who the hell’s side is this administration on, anyway?”

To have blown the latter so comprehensively is just barely deniable as to having been deliberate.

If a bad act is not deliberate, then it is accidental. Accidents raise the issue of competence. This is why we see so many people, whether in the dock or in front of the press, enthusiastically welcoming the notion of their own incompetence.

If this person happens to be a high official of the organization to which the public has lent practically 100% of its defensive assets, then the execution of any demoralization agenda will have been handled exceedingly competently.

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PS, wonder if the 300 folks on the plane , and anyone who flies or knows anyone who flies, or who has any connection with anything that benefits America and the free world, think the underwear bomber has been handled for their sake or the bomber’s.