I have no issue prosecuting this guy to the hilt and giving out whatever the punishment is for his crime if the guy is guilty. What sets America apart, or at least used to set America apart, is our democratic system and our rule of law. We have operated pretty well for a few hundred years with our system and it sickens me to see it all swept away by a bunch of loonies who have so badly botched everything they touch including the American judicial system and our good name around the world, I'd like to see us get back to what makes America, America. Just because the Bush administration has acted outside of the law does not mean that we have to scrap our judicial system, just to protect Bush.
A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush administration argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques.
Human rights groups have questioned the CIA's methods for questioning suspects, especially following the passage of a bill last month that authorized the use of harsh Ã?— but undefined Ã?— interrogation tactics.
In recently filed court documents, the Justice Department said those methods, along with the locations of the CIA's network of prisons, are among the nation's most sensitive secrets. Prisoners who spent time in those prisons should not be allowed to disclose that information, even to a lawyer, the government said.
"Improper disclosure of other operational details, such as interrogation methods, could also enable terrorist organizations and operatives to adapt their training to counter such methods, thereby obstructing the CIA's ability to obtain vital intelligence that could disrupt future planned terrorist attacks," the Justice Department wrote.
