Obama's Escape Clause...

Michael Mukasey was the U.S. Attorney General in the last George W. Bush term.  In Monday's WSJ he had a column (which I just read this morning) laying into Obama for his unseemly grabbing of credit for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.  But he also revealed something else, even more despicable:  Obama had prepared a way to blame the military if there was any failure in this incredibly high-risk mission. Mukasey:

A recently disclosed memorandum from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta shows that the president's celebrated derring-do in authorizing the operation included a responsibility-escape clause: "The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out."

The contrasts here with the famously different leadership style of Eisenhower and Lincoln are obvious, and (I hope!) familiar to most.

Shame and embarrassment.  That's what I feel right now...