John McCain's al-Qaeda Bill of Rights
So once again John McCain is all proud of himself. This time, it's because the White House is not vetoing his amendment which would ban the use of torture on terrorists by US forces, even though McCain said that in some cases, "you would do what you have to do" to protect innocent Americans from attack by procuring information in some ugly ways.
As is pointed out here and here, this provision is not all it's cracked up to be. Basically, this whole thing is a half-baked measure which boils down to mere political posturing from McCain. And we've never seen THAT before, have we?
(I don't know how I'm going to handle three more years of this.)
posted by Road Hammer @ 11:00 AM
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Pathetic that in Canada we have people concerned about the rights of people like the Khadr family, who celebrated the 9/11 attacks, over the ability of governments to disrupt terrorist attacks based on evidence obtained through interrogation tactics that are not very nice.
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