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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?
ummmm, he was mistaken identity- he had no good information.
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1. Nobody said that the Gov was wrong for holding the guy until they determined he wasn't a threat. On the other hand, that doesn't excuse threatening to turn his family over to the jackals. Yeah, the guy should be able to collect. And the interrogator ought to be fired.
2. Your point about it being a case of mistaken identity doesn't really answer the fact that the threat of harm to his family produced false intelligence. The mistaken identity guarantees the intelligence was going to be false, but the latter would not necessarily prove true.
3. I suppose at this point it's rather futile to keep pointing this out, but, if you really believe in the values we are supposedly fighting to keep, then you can't really argue in good faith that the times require abandoning those freedoms. The argument is disingenuous. After all, who's going to play God and determine when we have to uphold freedom and when we can sacrifice it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg?!
