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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Of course I would be suspicious, and I don't think that they did anything wrong in hauling him in and checking out his story. I even give a lot of leniency for the "holy shit the world just went to hell" feeling that permeated the country for the next six months or so.
If I were on the jury when this case goes back down for trial (based on the opinion, including the redacted bits), I'd probably not find anything wrong with the hotel for turning him in, but I would have problems with the way that the FBI gathers information. Mostly because it's a perfect example of why the method doesn't really work for getting any useful information AND it put a totally innocent man through utter hell.
And I still fail to see why it's classified.
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it's classified because perhaps the threat is bullshit. we will tell Egyptian security about you is a bit different from ringing them up. what is an FBI technique was to say "talk or we'll get them involved" BUT they never actually told the Egyptian security or whoever? it will no longer be any sort of effective technique now that it is public, but it might have been effective at one time.
That would actualy be almost what Ty had earlier lobbied for- we don't torture AND we don't hand over to foreign governement for torture.
What utter hell? given the situation he was found in, there was no way he wasn't spending some time in custody, I mean until the pilot showed up, the guy wasn't going to walk anyway.
