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"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."
Really, the Bush administration isn't taking this far enough. Based on this argument, why not just make sure that each detainee is given some useless piece of classified information when they come in? Then they've got an automatic "save versus habeas corpus" with no further work required.
Of course, this dovetails nicely with the Bush administration's tendency to classify anything that doesn't classify it first; this makes it easy to come up with useless classified information. (My personal favorite would be to classify the prisoner numbers.)
*seethe*
"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."
Really, the Bush administration isn't taking this far enough. Based on this argument, why not just make sure that each detainee is given some useless piece of classified information when they come in? Then they've got an automatic "save versus habeas corpus" with no further work required.
Of course, this dovetails nicely with the Bush administration's tendency to classify anything that doesn't classify it first; this makes it easy to come up with useless classified information. (My personal favorite would be to classify the prisoner numbers.)
*seethe*
