Dan Henninger on the Obama Administration's war on the War on Terror.

To supervise future interrogations, the administration is creating something called a High Value Detainee Interrogation Group. Interrogation techniques will be limited to those in the Army Field Manual or that are "noncoercive," which suggests more constrained than a big-city police department. Authority is being moved from the CIA to the FBI.

This means that the class of person who blows up skyscrapers, American embassies or the USS Cole would spend less time under a bare light bulb than a domestic robbery suspect. The Los Angeles Times reported in May that the goal of a proposed administration "global justice initiative" would be to get all terror suspects into a U.S. or foreign court.

Democrats and liberals viciously attacked the Bush Administration and the CIA as being war criminals and torturers the last four years. Obama and his party are taking a softer, more legalistic approach to protecting the country.

If there is another significant terror attack the Democratic party generally and the Obama Administration specifically will have to defend their self-proclaimed more enlightened approaches to combating terrorism. Liberals have a reputation for being soft on national security issues.

Despite all the gnashing of teeth on the left about the rights of terrorists, the American people are not nearly as upset that the man who cut off Daniel Pearl's head and engineered 9/11 was waterboarded 183 times before becoming an "asset" to the CIA.

As long as Al Qaida and other anti-American terrorist groups lay low, the Obama team may be able to muddle through. But should terrorists succeed in carrying out another attack against this country, there will be hell to pay and Obama and his fellow softies will quite deservedly be stuck with the bill.