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Posted on 03/20/2008 12:00:19 PM PDT by MitchellC
John Armor, the legal counsel to the American Civil Rights Union, says the ACLU continues to demonstrate its preference for an American defeat in the war on terror by attempting to limit the U.S. government from obtaining information from military prisoners.
The American Civil Liberties Union recently filed suit seeking a court order that it be given uncensored transcripts of military hearings for 14 of the "high value" terrorist detainees. John Armor of the American Civil Rights Union -- a conservative alternative to the ACLU -- argues that would be the same as if, in World War II, someone had sued to have the interrogation records of German spies released. "[It's] insane on the face of it that they should ask a court to do such a thing," says the attorney.
Armor says it is not just irrelevant to the ACLU that tens, or hundreds, or even thousands of Americans may be killed if the information held by these "illegal combatants" is not obtained and used. He says it seems to be the goal of the ACLU to take steps that will keep that information hidden, and lead to those deaths.
"They do want to aid these guys," he exclaims. "If you look at it politically, not legally, the ACLU wants the United States to lose in the war on terror because it feels that governments which are socialistic are preferred to what we have -- and those are the kind of people we're up against," he adds. "Of course, the fact that they're murderous dictators seems to escape the interest of the ACLU, so they're rooting for the other side to win and trying to help them."
Armor says it is fortunate that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly and clearly ruled against the ACLU's position on this issue.
Oops - wrong title. Can that be changed to:
ACLU seeks access to uncensored transcripts of terrorist hearings
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