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by Semiapies
6072 days ago
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"They'd simply get blamed for anything that happened within the next 10 years." The administration would get blamed anyway by virtue of being in charge. They've been willing to announce stopping the use of torture (with many in their opposition howling that this will cost American lives), so it's clearly not impossible for them to change policy just because security is the claimed justification for it. Nobody cares about what the TSA itself supports. The TSA does what it's told to do. The idea is to get enough people annoyed about what the FAA has the TSA do to encourage change in policy. This may or may not be doable, but that's politics for you. EDIT: emphasis added for the benefit of some poor readers. |
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Good grief.
3 people were waterboarded. The former administration refused to rule in or out any sort of interrogation technique.
They hardly "stopped the use of torture". Made a political statement, sure. Announced what the limits were, sure. But they didn't stop anything of the sort.