What price mindless abrogation of responsibility?

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“After 50 minutes of questioning him, the Obama administration chose, reflexively and mindlessly, to give the chatty terrorist the right to remain silent. Which he immediately did, undoubtedly denying us crucial information about al-Qaeda in Yemen, which had trained, armed and dispatched him. We have since learned that the decision to Mirandize Abdulmutallab had been made without the knowledge of or consultation with (1) the secretary of defense, (2) the secretary of homeland security, (3) the director of the FBI, (4) the director of the National Counterterrorism Center or (5) the director of national intelligence (DNI). The Justice Department acted not just unilaterally but unaccountably. Obama's own DNI said that Abdulmutallab should have been interrogated by the HIG, the administration's new High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group. [...] Travesties of this magnitude are not lost on the American people. One of the reasons Scott Brown won in Massachusetts was his focus on the Mirandizing of Abdulmutallab. Of course, this case is just a reflection of a larger problem: an administration that insists on treating Islamist terrorism as a law-enforcement issue. Which is why the Justice Department's other egregious terror decision, granting Khalid Sheik Mohammed a civilian trial in New York, is now the subject of a letter from six senators -- three Republicans, two Democrats and Joe Lieberman -- asking Attorney General Eric Holder to reverse the decision.”
— Charles Krauthammer, January 29, 2010

I keep saying to myself, "Myself, if you put your thinking-cap on and really, really concentrate hard, you may be able to figure out what in the name of God is going on in this obstinate, obsessed, infuriatingly mindless, counter-intuitive, f*cking administration." But, dear reader, I can not for the life of me figure it out. What is it going to take to get through to these people in the White House?

Is it going to require another mass murder of thousands of American civilians? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? WTF?!!!

Post #1,111 What price mindless abrogation of responsibility?