JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: TOO MUCH INFORMATION. Since the president and his team are going on the offensive once again in touting their tough security posture in the war on terror, it’s worth emphasizing a point: Moral qualms aside, pervasive surveillance and torture don’t actually serve as effective investigative techniques, as Matt reminds us today. They produce bad info, and way, way too much of it.

–The Editors