Question Time Isn't the Answer

In the age of terror, America needs sober, bipartisan leadership.

At the Feinstein hearings, the head of the FBI said that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be underwear bomber in a federal prison outside Detroit, is offering new information to investigators. Politico soon had a story by Mike Allen and Kasie Hunt saying a "law-enforcement source" told them, "The information has been active, useful, and we have been following up. The intelligence is not stale."

Assuming this is true, is it good that Abdulmutallab's friends back in Yemen, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Dubai, London and Houston, all of which he reportedly visited in the years leading up to his terror attempt, be told this? Is it good they be informed he is likely giving them up? Does it help us to warn them?

By Peggy Noonan