Because citizens have rights. Non-citizens do not have rights.
As far as I am concerned enemy combatants that do not abide by the Geneva conventions should not be granted any of their protections. I have read good legal arguments as to why we have to - but I just don’t care.
Well - Cruz is my first choice - but every time Trump says something like this he gets more of my good will.
Love it.
I’m a fan of the rights that US citizens have although I’m not a fan of throwing out evidence that proves a murderer to be a murderer. I’m not a fan of allowing a murderer to walk because someone obtained their evidence the wrong way, but that the evidence actually did prove the murderer was a murderer.
Waterboarding is normally used to obtain info about techniques, plans, etc. in order to prevent future attacks by terrorists. It is preemptive.
Getting a confession of a murder by a civil criminal via waterboarding would, of course, be suspect. But getting the location of a murder weapon or of a body or of some physical proof of the murder is an entirely different matter.
I wouldn’t give you a wooden nickel for a confession. But, it’s pretty hard to explain away how someone knew the location of the murder weapon. He didn’t come to know it because he was being water-boarded.
I’m a fan of the rights that US citizens have although I’m not a fan of throwing out evidence that proves a murderer to be a murderer. I’m not a fan of allowing a murderer to walk because someone obtained their evidence the wrong way, but that the evidence actually did prove the murderer was a murderer.
Waterboarding is normally used to obtain info about techniques, plans, etc. in order to prevent future attacks by terrorists. It is preemptive.
Getting a confession of a murder by a civil criminal via waterboarding would, of course, be suspect. But getting the location of a murder weapon or of a body or of some physical proof of the murder is an entirely different matter.
I wouldn’t give you a wooden nickel for a confession. But, it’s pretty hard to explain away how someone knew the location of the murder weapon. He didn’t come to know it because he was being water-boarded.
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