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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I disagree. In fact, I think this is a pretty silly position.
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Why? Where does it fail? How does a terrorist plot differ from any other criminal conspiracy? It's political motivation? Doesn't acknowledging that as a defining difference merely validate the terrorist? Al Q (like the IRA before it)
wants to be fighting a war. Like the IRA before it, they are merely a band of criminals.
Before we wander down a random path, however, let me clarify: we're (or I'm) talking about the treatment of prisoners, not intellegence gathering and/or law enforcement. I definitely see a distinction where intellegence gathering groups maybe should not be limited by the constraints of law enforcement. And to a certain extent, I may even be willing to agree that applies to the holding of certain people by those intellegence services in ways that are extra-legal. But such holdings are not something to be proud of, and those who engage in such acts do so at their own risk (we may attempt to get them out of a jam with another government, but ultimately, we don't have much to say if the other government decides that it would rather execute our spy than deal with us). Such is the nature of spying.
