[arbee4bush]

I agree with you. I hope that this will work in our favor in the end. What I worry about now is that this hearing today will turn into the Church commission (don't think there won't be a commission out of this) and that there will be handcuffs put on our military and investigative forces like they did to the CIA....make them impotent to be able to conduct the business of interrogating prisoners and getting the needed info to protect our troops during war. I hope I am wrong. But I have this sinking feeling we may never ever be able to wage war and win with the partisanship we have in this country and in the media. Pray I am wrong.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"What I worry about now is that this hearing today will turn into the Church commission..."

There will be that attempt. It will be a battle royale. A political food fight, and in the end, I believe those who place America first will win out, God willing.

FReegards....

[LS]

Your comments are interesting, because if you look at Victor Davis Hanson's 1999 book, "The Soul of Battle," he asked (pretty skeptically) in his conclusion if a western army of liberation could ever march successfully into battle again. Well, we showed that one could.

And even the Church commission has been overturned by the Patriot Act. But I understand your concern, and in the short run, the answer is, "yes," there will be some constraints put on interrogation of prisoners, and the CIA/Military Intel people will just have to go "deeper" in their plausible deniability when they do what they will continue to do.