And the liberal blogosphere, those folks who are always looking to the future (sic), are all up in arms about just how darned mean we were to the people who behead people with knives, set roadside bombs, oh, and fly planes into our buildings, killing 3,000 our our citizens
(NY Times) The Justice Department in 2003 gave military interrogators broad authority to use extreme methods in questioning detainees and argued that wartime powers largely exempted interrogators from laws banning harsh treatment, according to a memorandum publicly disclosed on Tuesday.
In a sweeping legal brief written in March 2003, when the Pentagon was struggling to determine the appropriate limits for its interrogators, the Justice Department gave the Pentagon much of the same authority it had provided to the Central Intelligence Agency in a memorandum months earlier. Both memorandums were later rescinded by the Justice Department.
The disclosure of the 2003 document, a detailed 81-page opinion written by John C. Yoo, who at the time was the second-ranking official at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department, is likely to fuel the already intense debate about legal boundaries in the face of a continuing terrorist threat.
Mr. Yoo’s memorandum is the latest document to illuminate the legal foundation that Bush administration lawyers used after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to give the White House broad powers to capture, detain and interrogate suspects around the globe.
The NY Times inadvertently tells the truth, and exposes the reality. We are in a fight against animals. They do not believe in the same civilized behavior (I use the term loosely for those on the Left) as the Western world. For those one the left who scoff, why not search around and find some of the video’s of Islamists beheading people.
They are not citizens of the USA, and this is war, no matter what liberals/progressives think feel. Why not take a look at the Al Qaeda torture manual? Because I still missing the part where any of our detainees were actually harmed, beyond being scared and disoriented enough to tell us what we need.
To close it out, I’ll ask yet again the question I always ask of liberals: how exactly are we to get intelligence from these terrorists quickly? I’m assuming tickle torture is also out.
Gribbit is covering this at Stop The ACLUÂ and his own site, with the ACLU in his gun sights.
Captain Ed gives it the thrice over, and finds the story wanting.
Macsmind: The left is foaming out of the mouth about this (funny they don’t feel that way about partial-birth abortions – or any abortions for that matter – I digress) but the fact is that serious times called for serious measures. One would have to ask the question, “Is one terrorist’s comfort greater than the deaths of innocents?â€
