Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack

OK, the Constitution can't survive the Bushies justice department. The original article has links for every step of the case.


http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1121/dailyUpdate.html

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"This case crystallizes the danger of this period in US history — when you can be held on the flimsiest of evidence, or non-evidence, based on the suspicion that one might have done something," said Ron Daniels of the New York-based rights center. "This is exactly the point — Americans, even as they want to fight the war against terrorism, do not want to sacrifice what this country stands for in the pursuit of this war on terrorism. Because if we do that, we have lost our soul as a nation."
Meanwhile, Canadian authorities seemed to disagree about their government's role in the deportation of Arar to Syria. On Wednesday, Canadian Solicitor General Wayne Easter admitted that his department had shared information on Arar with the US. But then on Thursday, Canadian foreign minister Bill Graham told the Financial Times that Canada had nothing to do with the deportation decision.

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Suspects have been sent to Syria, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, countries whose abusive practices have been documented and condemned by the State Department's annual human rights report. "We don't kick the s--- out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the s--- out of them," an unnamed official who had participated in the rendering of prisoners told the Post. Along with the prisoner, the CIA provides the foreign intelligence services a list of questions it wants answered.
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But Human Rights Watch's Tom Malinowski says repeated evidence shows that torture "is a wonderful way of getting false concessions out of innocent people. It is a terrible way of getting the truth out of guilty people." Philip Heyman, former deputy attorney-general of the US, says torture is "a prescription for losing a war for support of our beliefs in the hope of reducing the casualties from relatively small battles."
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Well, I can say it because I also have a degree from UT-Arlington.

 

Hey! My Dad resembles that remark.