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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
he is sol, or should be. do you think he should be able to collect from the government?
I know we aren't supposed to say you guys live in lala land when it comes to security, but help me here: a guy was found near ground zero with some pretty suspicious stuff. you say we can't torture, I believe you think we shouldn't hand him over to say Egypt, so what do we do? take his word that he did nothing wrong and move on, let him go?
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No. None of us have said anything of the sort. I've gone out of my way to say that yeah, picking him up under those circumstances wasn't a bad idea. But there are other, more time consuming yet more reliable methods of confirming his story. Talk to the guy. Talk to the people who knew the guy or had been around him in the days/weeks/months prior. Find out where he'd been, who he'd hung out with, how he was financed. Get more information on the equipment, what it was, where it came from, who gave it to him.
I know that you guys don't believe in police work, but damnit this thing could have easily been cleared up in a week had they bothered to do actual work. And they could have done it without terrorizing anyone else.
We capture a key conspiritor days after 9/11 and didn't bother to follow up his story for 34 days after he "confessed"?
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ummmm, he was mistaken identity- he had no good information.
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This is hard to believe, but a lot of people, even people whose first names are Abdullah, have no good information. And from time to time, we pick them up. "Ooops" often isn't good enough if we fuck them over too much.
