veiled4allah: secret detentions are unAmerican veiled4allah: secret detentions are unAmericanWhat has the appeals court authorized? Secret detentions.It's writing like this that keeps me going back to Jim's blog again and again.
Please say those words aloud. "Secret detentions." Now use them in a sentence:
The US government engages in the practice of secret detentions.
The US government has broadly asserted its right to engage in the practice of secret detentions.
A federal appeals court has affirmed that the US government may engage in secret detentions.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The question is not "Do terrorists deserve the same rights as ordinary criminals?" The question is "Are terrorist suspects terrorists?" That's exactly congruent with the question "Are criminal suspects criminals?" We have centuries of experience on what can go wrong trying to answer that question, and developed an elaborate system of rights and procedures to minimize the potential for disaster - depriving the innocent of the liberty, property and even lives. We know that politicians, bureaucrats, law enforcement agents and intelligence operatives are human and fallible - that such people have lied, bungled, covered up lies and bungling, been gripped by a fever of wrongheaded enthusiasm and arrogance. From LA to Tulia to Boston, these human actions have devastated innocent people, in the case of Tulia an entire innocent town. We can be absolutely sure that terrorism investigations will lead to similar incidents and likely already have.
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Subject: Re: secret detentions are unAmerican
This secret detentions thing is *really* scary, and I especially appreciate Henley's wonder at the fact that nobody seems to care. . . . I can remember back in the Eighties, when "The Disappeared" in Latin America was such a huge deal that they devoted an entire episode of "21 Jump Street" to it.