Everybody knows that if you torture people you don't get good information. It was never about that. Disappearing people and putting them into orange jumpsuits, and into legal black holes and waterboarding them and freezing them and killing detainees was about signaling to the rest of world that you can not challenge or stand up to American power, because if you do, we will respond without constraints, and there is nothing anybody can or will do about it. It was about creating a climate of repression and fear to deter any would-be dissenters or challengers to American power. And that is what this war on whistleblowing and this war on Wikileaks is about as well.
1More
Commentary: Since 9/11, the government might know you're reading this | McClatchy - 0 views
1More
The American Wikileaks Hacker | Rolling Stone Culture - 0 views
1More
The Money Party - The Essence of our Political Troubles | The Economic Populist - 0 views
1More