Liberal Forum

Its a good thing the intel community looked at what legally constituted torture and did not authorize anything that crossed that line! We would have egg on our faces now....

Fox News' Elisabeth Hasselbeck Uses Sydney Hostage Crisis To Defend Torture During FOX News' coverage of an Iranian-born gunman holding 17 men and women hostage at a cafe in Sydney Monday, "Fox & Friends" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck used the crisis to defend the CIA and bash the Senate Intelli...

There was absolutely no reason to imprison Japanese Americans; not even a bit of evidence. We got mountains of intel from waterboarding and harsh interrogations, and as high CIA officials stated, thousands of lives were saved. Further, even worse torture happened under Clinton and likely Obama, by...

It was not okay at the time or ever. Just like torture was not okay after 9/11 or ever....

So that means it was ok and considered proper AT THE TIME? People loved FDR and only through the prism of time and CHANGED sensitivities was he considered an asshole on his issue. Thank you for the clarification....

Did FDR torture people? President Jimmy Carter opened an investigation to determine whether the decision to put Japanese Americans into internment camps had been justified by the government. And in 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized for the intern...

FDR did it, and no one was threatened with prosecution or impeachment, because anyone with common sense knows that a president will cross lines to protect the country. And that when peace comes, policy goes back to Constitutional and legal norms. It was a mistake and President Reagan signed legisl...

Correct, queer - but I straightened him out....

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I'm afraid that Golfboy has lost his mind....