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Originally Posted by tw
Extremists in government (including Cheney) said if you were not an American citizen, then kidnapping anywhere in the world was legal, put you in a secret prision, deny you existed, torture you, and do so for as long as they wanted. Extremists Republican lawyers even wrote findings that said it was acceptable.
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So I just
took a stroll down memory lane. Bad times.
I'm not sure if it was worse then or if it's just that we aren't examining things as closely now. We don't have people like White House counsel Alberto Gonzales saying torture is OK and that the Geneva Conventions are "quaint." So that's good, but we do have drones assassinating enemies at the push of a button. And no privacy from our spying government.
I pleased that Feinstein is doing this. A little transparency is a good thing for a nation.