WEDGIE! In the New York Post, Michael Walsh writes:

Let’s stipulate that the CIA’s discovery a fortnight ago of yet another underwear-bomber plot, this one originating with al Qaeda in Yemen and aimed at an American airliner, was a splendid feat of intel tradecraft.

Stipulate, too, that it gets us one step closer to nailing Ibrihim al-Asiri, the terrorist behind the earlier Christmas Day underwear-bomber plot in Detroit in 2009, as well as the bombs hidden inside laser printers stashed aboard cargo planes in 2010.

And let’s agree that foiling the operation by means of a double agent inside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s operational structure potentially saved many lives.

But here’s a rude question: Why do we even know about this?

Because we need as many distractions as possible if undecided voters are going to forget the recession almost as much as Obama has.

More from Max Boot at Commentary.

UPDATE: “Mark Levin: We were fed propaganda, there was no CIA double agent!”