Panetta’s mistake

Re “Panetta says waterboarding is torture,” Feb. 6

I’m sure CIA chief nominee Leon E. Panetta is a good, decent man -- who unfortunately lives in an ideological world and not the real world.

He says that if Osama bin Laden were captured, “We would find a place to hold him. ... We would debrief him and incarcerate him.” Panetta will be singing that tune until an American city is under siege from a terrorist attack masterminded by the man he “incarcerated” and “debriefed.”

Unfortunately, by the time Bin Laden gets his Miranda rights read to him, it will be too late.

Carlos Bermudez

Granada Hills