Eric H. Holder Jr., Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, asserted in a speech to the American Constitution Society (ACS) that the United States must reverse “the disastrous course” set by the Bush administration in the struggle against terrorism by closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, declaring without qualification that the U.S. does not torture people, ending the practice of transferring individuals involuntarily to countries that engage in torture and ceasing warrantless domestic surveillance.LET SEE....
- SCHEUER (AN IRAQ WAR CRITIC) HAS REPEATEDLY SAID THAT " the practice of transferring individuals involuntarily to countries that engage in torture" OR RENDITION IS AN ESSENTIAL TOOL. ONE THAT HAS KEPT US SAFE.
- WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE OF ENEMY SIGNALS IS CONSTITUTIONAL AND KEEPS US SAFE. GETTING WARRANTS FOR EVERY INTERCEPT IS IMPRACTICAL AND UNNECESSARY.
- BUSH HAS REPEATEDLY SAID THE USA DOESN'T TORTURE. WATER-BOARDING ISN'T TORTURE. THE PROOF OF THIS IS THE FACT THAT BOOZERS LIKE HITCHENS HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR IT AND HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT IT. NO ONE VOLUNTEERS FOR REAL TORTURE.
- GITMO KEEPS US SAFE MERELY BY KEEPING THE PRISONERS THERE AND OUT OF THE USA, OUT OF OUR TOWNS.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE SCUM.
Reliapundit, isn't it fascinating that liberals and ACLU types are concerned about human rights and freedom in Cuba, but of course, the part of Cuba run by the US Navy not the 11 million Cubans under the tyranny of the Castro Brothers!!!
ReplyDeleteThere is a great You Tube tape today in which Holder is denying, in the face of pictures, that Elian Gonzalez was taken at gunpoint without a court order...
He is a scumbag that collaborated with Quinn to get a pardon for that traitor Rich, whose wife Denise gave it up big time to Billy Jeff.
Thank goodness someone is finally putting an end to the horrendous practice of torturing prisoners, whether it be first hand or outsourcing the job.
ReplyDeleteI think its terribly amusing how the right-wing pantswetters cry about how necessary it is for the government to engage in warrantless wiretapping. FISA provisions provided for post-facto application for warrants. Its an outright lie and fearmongering to claim that requiring a warrant in the manner that the current law does makes the country less safe, or that the Bush administration was justified in breaking the law.
Those would would sacrifice their freedom to purchase a little safety deserve neither.
carlos: of course u know greg craig - the next chief legal counsel to obama - was the lawyer for elian gonsales's FATHER.
ReplyDeleteobama & co are squarely on castro's side.
holder was in the DOJ at the time, too.
pinko scum. all.
oh an mccoy: nobody was really tortured. waterboarding ain;lt torture.
pelosi and reid could've passed a law declaring it legally tortire but never evenm tried.
gee: i wonder why!?!?!?
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why get a court order AFTER the fact!?!?
did fdr ever get a court order for intercepoting enemy signals!?!?
making the potus get a court order to intercept enemy signals during wartime and givng enemy combatants rights WW2 pow's never had ranks up there with DRED SCOT.
we held 400000 germans in texas during ww2. none had habeus corpus rights. none could sue in federal copurt.
now they can.
idiotic. but the pinkos in europe will be happy!!!! YAY!