Captured terrorists are
not covered by the Geneva Conventions. They are war criminals. They attack
innocent civilians instead of military targets and intentionally kill them.
They do not wear uniforms to distinguish themselves from innocent civilians. In
fact, they hold civilians near their military activity as shields. They torture
and even behead prisoners. They commit ethnic cleansing and genocide. The
enslave women. All of these actions are war crimes. Terrorists are outlaws in the Medieval sense
of the word, which means they get no protection from the law and can be shot
(or attacked by drones) on sight. The laws of war do not apply to them. They
are not in the same class as soldiers captured in uniform on a battlefield and
do not have the same rights to fair treatment. The closest comparable status would
be spies. Anybody who says we never used enhanced interrogation techniques on
spies during WWII or the Cold War is either exceedingly naive or willfully
ignorant.
This report is an
attempt to rewrite history. At the time, Democrats were informed of the
interrogation techniques but the fear of Al Qaeda was paramount then. Now,
Democrats desperately need issues that work against Republicans, so they want
to erase their past consent to enhanced interrogation techniques. If their past
consent goes down the memory hole, then they can be "shocked,
shocked" that "torture" was going on. Feinstein is so corrupt,
she does not care that pursuing this strategy means no foreign intelligence
service will ever cooperate with us again. The needs of the Democratic Party
and the cause of Liberalism come first.