Reply #4: This phrase is incredible [View All]

[daleo]

"The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts."

Lifetime detentions for people they don't even have enough evidence to try legally. If this is possible, there is no rule of law, no civil rights, no habeas corpus, no Magna Carta, nothing. Everything is potentially at the whim of the government.

On edit - An equally scary comment from the article:
"Renditions are the most effective way to hold people," said Rohan Gunaratna, author of "Inside al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror." "The threat of sending someone to one of these countries is very important. In Europe, the custodial interrogations have yielded almost nothing" because they do not use the threat of sending a detainee to a country where they are likely to be tortured.