Blown Up In Your Faces

Richard Cohen's craptastic column today complaining of Obama's utter failure on terrorism and pleading for a police state to keep us safe looks particularly moronic in light of this news:

CNN's Barbara Starr, moments ago:

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ... has been talking to investigators since last week.  According to this law enforcement official, he has been providing what is called useful, current and actionable intelligence.

Politico Breaking News email, moments ago:

The “underwear bomber” has begun cooperating with FBI counterterrorism agents and has provided “useful, current” intelligence, a law enforcement source told POLITICO. The source said: "It started last week, and has continued for several days. ... We have been following up. The intelligence is not stale."

Same applies to David Frum who voiced basically the same idiocy yesterday:

And from the national security perspective of the right, the policy is equally bizarre. If you want to build a federal case against an accused terrorist, you have to follow federal criminal rules from the beginning: that's why the Obama justice department read a Miranda warning to the underwear bomber. But following federal criminal rules means closing our ears to valuable information. As soon as the underwear bomber got his Miranda warning, he stopped talking.

Except Frum, as usual, has no idea what he's talking about.  There's a shocker.