And here I was, sitting here slurping up my MSM gruel about what a big victory the anti-torture people had won over big, bad, Dick Cheney. Why, I practically sprayed my poor monitor with small, grey-flecked chunks of mystery meal when I read this:
(http://www.nytimes.com/...)
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 - House and Senate negotiators agreed Friday to a measure that would enable the government to keep prisoners at Guantánamo Bay indefinitely on the basis of evidence obtained by coercive interrogations.
The provision, which has been a subject of extensive bargaining with the Bush administration, could allow evidence that would not be permitted in civilian courts to be admissable in deciding whether to hold detainees at the American military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In recent days, the Congressional negotiators quietly eliminated an explicit ban on the use of such material in an earlier version of the legislation.
Maybe I'm just nutty, or paranoid or something, but doesn't this mean that if Person A, under "coercion", says that Persons B, C, and D are involved in something Interrogator A is against, then Persons B, C, and D may be kept in detention in perpetuity, without benefit of counsel or oversight?
Does that strike anyone else as being slightly, er, unAmerican?
Why again is John McCain considered such a hero in all of this?
And shouldn't that little cherub Lindsay Graham be asked to return to Timmeh's show to explain how it is he thinks he can act all "Oh I'm against torture" and all "We're not close to a deal" and then sponsor something like this?
And shouldn't Carl Levin come out fromm behind those cute little nose-glasses of his and 'splain his damn self?