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ACLU applying double standard in torture case
Chad Groening
Once again, says the American Civil Rights Union, the ACLU is taking
action
to undermine the U.S. government's ability to obtain valuable information
from illegal enemy combatants who want to do the country harm.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling for "an independent
counsel to investigate the administration's approval of torture and
abuse."
The ACLU claims a recent re****t shows top-level advisers "were part of the
National Security Council's 'Principals Committee' that regularly met and
approved the CIA's use of 'combined', 'enhanced' interrogation
techniques."
John Armor is legal counsel to the American Civil Rights Union
[http://www.theacru.org],
a conservative alternative to the ACLU. He says
the ACLU does not seem to have any problem with the real torture being
used
by America's Islamic enemies.
"No, of course not," he says sarcastically, "because the Islamic countries
are apparently socialist countries -- and that's a desirable ideology [to
the ACLU]. It's obviously a political game," he surmises, noting that the
ACLU raised no questions about torture tactics during World War II.
Congress, according to Armor, could put a stop to the ACLU's intimidation
tactics if it wanted to. "One [way] is to cut off the fund awards that
ACLU
gets -- especially cases against the Ten Commandments, for instance," says
the attorney. "Congress, if it wanted to, could change the funding law,
which it passed in 1976, and say that the ACLU no longer gets money for
this," Armor points out.
It is interesting, adds the attorney, that the ACLU never had any problem
with similar situations during previous administrations.
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