bag searching on the subway is a common sense policy?
I certainly don’t think so. I think its part of a gradual process where overzealous protectors of the public are slowly turning the country into one giant airport screening process, known as a police state in some circles. Its also a nuisance, If they searched us going into the subway where I live, I’d use the bus a lot more.
I don’t understand how you can so quickly dismiss the anti-warrantless wiretapping cases as “[Crippling] America’s intelligence gathering capability.” Indeed, the Chinese, Cuban, and North Korean intelligence communities can now point their fingers and laugh at their poor crippled American counterparts. What a shame!
I disagree with their decision to take up the KSM case, but its as though your trying to misunderstand their rationale. The point is not to set 300 terrorists free, its to force the military to let them have criminal trials. I agree with the military’s position, that they are foreign combatants and not protected by the bill of rights. Even so, I consider it a good thing that a court will have to rule on this.
