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Dianne Feinstein deserves enormous credit. Fox News and Republicans are bashing her and by extension her party as traitorous as we speak. The argument that this

Dianne Feinstein deserves enormous credit. Fox News and Republicans are bashing her and by extension her party as traitorous as we speak. The argument that this report should be kept in secret because it endangers Americans' lives is abominable. As an American living abroad, I'm happy to see this released. Still, I wonder about some of the side-effects of this. Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy.

tormeh 12y ago
I would rather be killed than tortured, obviously depending on the type of torture.
scott_karana 12y ago
It's really disappointing that she does support the NSA's extrajudicial activities, though, to the point of calling Snowden a traitor. C'est la vie :P
- sigzero 12y ago
  This does nothing to help my view of her.
discardorama 12y ago
The report didn't endanger American lives; their actions did.
dragonwriter 12y ago
> Still, I wonder about some of the side-effects of this. Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy. We were killing plenty of people in the War on Terror while the detentions and torture were going on (heck, the torture was sold in part on the basis that it was helping us find and kill people that needed killing in that war.) And some of those tortured also died as a result. Torture and killing aren't mutually exclusive alternatives.
spacefight 12y ago
>> Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy. Less messy, less dirty, less dirty hands etc etc. Yeah right. I wonder how the drone operators sleep at night after a "successful" hit at e.g. a wedding ceromony etc. Drone kills are still plain evil. And illegal.
chiph 12y ago
Look into her history. Before she was against it, she was for it.
- scribu 12y ago
  She was in favor of what, exactly?
a3n 12y ago
I think a drone strike is pretty fucking messy. What a drone strike does is move the mess to a place that's easy to conceal from American citizens.
cpitman 12y ago
It was her job in the first place to keep this from happening. The fact that this report even needed to happen is a result of her committee's inability to provide the oversight that they are tasked with.

tormeh 12y ago

I would rather be killed than tortured, obviously depending on the type of torture.

scott_karana 12y ago

It's really disappointing that she does support the NSA's extrajudicial activities, though, to the point of calling Snowden a traitor. C'est la vie :P

sigzero 12y ago
This does nothing to help my view of her.

discardorama 12y ago

The report didn't endanger American lives; their actions did.

dragonwriter 12y ago

> Still, I wonder about some of the side-effects of this. Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy. We were killing plenty of people in the War on Terror while the detentions and torture were going on (heck, the torture was sold in part on the basis that it was helping us find and kill people that needed killing in that war.) And some of those tortured also died as a result. Torture and killing aren't mutually exclusive alternatives.

spacefight 12y ago

>> Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy. Less messy, less dirty, less dirty hands etc etc. Yeah right. I wonder how the drone operators sleep at night after a "successful" hit at e.g. a wedding ceromony etc. Drone kills are still plain evil. And illegal.

chiph 12y ago

Look into her history. Before she was against it, she was for it.

scribu 12y ago
She was in favor of what, exactly?

a3n 12y ago

I think a drone strike is pretty fucking messy. What a drone strike does is move the mess to a place that's easy to conceal from American citizens.

cpitman 12y ago

It was her job in the first place to keep this from happening. The fact that this report even needed to happen is a result of her committee's inability to provide the oversight that they are tasked with.