Re-do of blog assignment #3

I never thought that I would agree with anything that John McCain says but ill have to agree with him about the CIA’s torture tactics. He states that the CIA’s torture policies “stained our national honor, did muchharm and little practical good”.  He also stated "This question isn't about our enemies; it's about us. It's about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. Our enemies act without conscience. We must not."

            According the article it says that the program had a knack for lying and misinforming congress on what their “interrogations” were really like.  There were 119 detainees and 39 of which were “interrogated” which I think we can assume this means that they were tortured for information. It pains me to hear that the CIA was torturing this many people never the less just one. After all this it’s also made clear in the article that we could have acquired this information in other ways. I always thought up until recently that the government was here to protect us and I looked up to the president and the various government agencies to look after the American public. After reading this article I feel like we are the ones in the wrong and now we need some one to keep us in check.

            I completely agree with the author who repeatedly quotes John McCain, the American public needs to know about what is going on behind closed doors. After reading this article I have little respect for the way our country is going about protecting us. Protection should not involve torturing others, ideas like that seem like something that a terrorist organization would rationalize. After 9/11 over reaction is to be expected but when we lash out like this it makes us the villains too.