GOP: Damn It! Now Everyone Will Want A Secret Prison
Leave it to the Rethugs. They're not upset by the fact that our government is running secret prisons in other countries, but because someone let the American people and the rest of the World in on it.
Now every country will think it's okay to have one.
BUT THERE'S MORE: The GOP may have jumped on smashing the leaker too soon. A commenter at DK reports that Trent Lott is saying he believes the leaker may be a GOP Senator.
Regardless of who it is, my initial reaction is that this is precisely the type of secret that needs a whistleblower. We, the American people, get to make the decision about engaging in such a tactic that is fraught with international consequence. Establishing prisons in other countries to avoid the dictates of United States laws is not something the President is or should be entitled to do secretly.
Now every country will think it's okay to have one.
BUT THERE'S MORE: The GOP may have jumped on smashing the leaker too soon. A commenter at DK reports that Trent Lott is saying he believes the leaker may be a GOP Senator.
Regardless of who it is, my initial reaction is that this is precisely the type of secret that needs a whistleblower. We, the American people, get to make the decision about engaging in such a tactic that is fraught with international consequence. Establishing prisons in other countries to avoid the dictates of United States laws is not something the President is or should be entitled to do secretly.
posted by Macswain at
1:14 PM
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Macswain:
Assume that U.S. officials know that a significant attack is going to occur in a couple of large US cities(the big bombs for example), but don't know sufficient details to stop them and have a couple of dopes in custody that have the information, you and your kind would sit down with these boys, offer them an English cookie and try to engage them in conversation. Me, I would impale a couple of the fuckers with bamboo shafts and let their cohorts observe. I wonder, which method might stop the attack. But, I must admit, those English cookies can be tasty, with all that butter. Rolly
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Anonymous, at 7:45 AM
rolly--
You write "I would impale a couple of the fuckers with bamboo shafts and let their cohorts observe." Did you get that technique outta Saddam's book? The (belated) reason your kind offered for going into Iraq (after WMD failed) was to stop a brutal torturer.
You're also wrongly assuming torture works on these fuckers. Any cohort willing to strap on the vest probably won't be deterred by watching the bamboo show. Going slow entitles em to a few more virgins in the afterlife.
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Anonymous, at 8:57 AM
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