Comments on: Bush admits secret prisons, announces new terror strategy

By: CIA officers fear prosecution - Homeland Stupidity

CIA officers fear prosecution - Homeland Stupidity — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:04:20 +0000

[...] Increased usage of the policy follows an announcement by George W. Bush earlier this month, in which he admitted to the existence of secret prisons run by the CIA. Given the controversial nature of such prisons — and the interrogation methods used in them — many CIA officials fear prosecution if fair trials are ensured for the estimated 100 prisoners who have been detained in them. [...]

By: Q

Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:55:02 +0000

he’s only admitting now cause he knows he’ll never be impeached and he’s some how benefiting from it. just like the thing about false information to go to Iraq, and Iraq not actually being involved in any of this, or about the illegal wiretaps.

I think Mark Twain said it best:

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”

By: Vinn

Vinn — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:24:46 +0000

I don’t need a government to keep me safe. The government wasn’t formed to protect me. It was formed to make nice roads, etc.

By: Tommy Jefferson

Tommy Jefferson — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:13:13 +0000

Torture is not bad. It is not a crime. Torture is good. It keeps us safe. You want to be safe, don’t you? You want your children to be safe, don’t you? Then we must use these “alternative procedures.”

To keep us safe, the President must be able to do anything he pleases, without hindrance from the “pre-9/11 mindset” of the U.S. Constitution.

He must be able to spy on us. He must be able to imprison us without charges. He must be able to hold us indefinitely. He must be able to order extrajudicial killings without arrest, trial, jury â€“ or warning.

What’s wrong with that, if it keeps your family safe?

Do you want your children to die? Because that’s what will happen if you oppose the President!

/plagarized

By: Dana

Dana — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:24:42 +0000

Maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I’d be a lot more open to some of these activities if I knew exactly what they were. It seems to me that we walk the middle line too often and keep too many things secret in order to not anger anyone too much. This is just me, but I think we either need to have a war or not…the middle ground doesn’t get us anywhere, as per John Adams. Who also said something very similar to requiring fair trials for all, regardless of the accusations against them if we want to be a free society.

And I definitely agree with that, as well.