"An Al-Qaeda Person"

MR. McCLELLAN: If there is an al-Qaeda person operating inside the United States and talking to someone outside the United States, you bet we want to know what they're saying.

So now it's not only al-Qaeda "people" on the international ends of the phone calls, but they're also "operating" inside the United States -- with our full knowledge -- and we choose not to arrest them.

A point this blog has brought up before now, but it seems so mind-boggling that the mainstream media are unable to grasp the simple logical fallacy: if the reason we don't arrest them, even knowing who and where they are (including that they are "very bad people who have a history of blowing up commuter trains, weddings, and churches") is that we want to gain information from them that will help us foil the next attack; then why not release all of the Guantanamo prisoners? Why not release Jose Padilla? Why not release everyone in Abu Ghraib, and Bagram, and all of our far-flung detention centers? Why not release everybody with a "history of blowing up commuter trains, weddings, and churches", and monitor them, too?

That way we can prevent even more attacks from happening, and thus claim even more convincingly that we're "winning this War On Terror".

Why, Scottie, why?

Posted by Eddie Tews at January 25, 2006 04:30 PM