Today's New York Times (Sunday, October 24) carries the first of a three-part series on the unconstitutional manner in which a small group of White House officials, working in almost total secrecy, created a new system of justice for the war on terrorism. Check it out; this outrage makes the McCarthy years seem benign.
The idea was to get information out of suspected terrorists quickly, without going through the baggage normally associated with courts, evidence, defense attorneys and all the rest of that liberal drivel. It led to the establishment of the Guantanamo detention center, and, if you connect the dots, to nods and winks encouraging abuse of detainees in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
The plan was so sensitive that, until it was accepted by President Bush, it was hidden from Condoleezza Rice, Colin L. Powell, and the U.S. Congress.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/international/worldspecial2/24gitmo.html
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