Controtionistic Politics
How far over backwards do you have to bend before your head comes off? This seems to be the question liberals - and I include the liberal "republican," John McCain in this group - are attempting to demonstrate.
Quoting from David Frum at National Review Online,
So, what now is it we have to do? Give all of the secret information we gather as a result of trying to track down the terrorists and murderers to those same people, so they can warn their coreligionist murderers how to avoid capture and failure? Jut what kind of political pandering is this? Who do McCain, Warner, Graham, and that other idiot think they’re impressing with this kind of stunt?"McCain and his supporters cite two principal objections. They complain that the commissions can use “secret” evidence – meaning, evidence unseen by the accused terrorist himself. And they complain that the commissions can bar the terrorist from the court when secure information is presented. Both objections are true, but weirly beside the point. “Secret” evidence may go unseen by the accused terrorist – but it will be available to the lawyer in charge of his defense. And this “secret” evidence can only be kept secret after two independent certifications: first, the agency that classified the information in the first place must certify that the evidence cannot safely be declassified; second, the military judge (who will have seen the evidence) must certify that the trial can be conducted fairly even without the accused terrorist personally seeing it."
