On: AI is ummasking ICE officers. Can Washington do anything about it?

[krapp]

Secret court proceedings have been a thing since 9/11. People seem to have forgotten that we built a concentration camp in Cuba explicitly to detain "enemy combatants" indefinitely without trial, deprive them of their civil liberties and torture (sorry, "enhanced interrogate") them, and how eagerly the American public got behind all of it.

We had the chance to nip it in the bud over 20 years ago and we couldn't. It doesn't look like we're going to this time, either.

[scarecrowbob → krapp]

As far as I know, CIA black sites go back as far as the CIA. I think it's endemic to contemporary state structures- though clearly morally wrong.

But hey, these folks are evil; if that kind of extra judicial torture of random folks is the thing that has guided me away from Omelas, so be it.