On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jorge Amodio <jmamodio(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
The other countries concerned did not employ torture as the US did under
President Bush.
You mean like Pakistan, Iran, Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia ....
My original comment was limited to adversaries with potential intercept
capability.
If it is the case that we have to be concerned about a widespread intercept
capability by those countries in the US then the intelligence agencies have
completely failed in their mission to defend NATO countries.
China on the other hand, well we all outsource manufacture there.
Of course there are despotic regimes that also use torture. The point I was
making is that alone in the free world the US administration decided to
sanction war crimes and it appears from their choice of codenames that the
people in charge of this program might be the type of people who put
confederate flags on their cars.
So 'just trust us we are the good guys' does not have the same rhetorical
force that it once did.
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