cyrnel

I took this to be more of a law aimed at protecting the powers that be from what seems innevitable legal recourse when their terms are up. The law makes what they've previously done in the camps and abroad legal retroactively, protecting them from US prosecution.

I'm not so sure it means anything for anti-terrorism going forward. The practices don't seem to have achieved much to this point. The only bonus is that we'll now look like a country condoning the behavior and the international agreements will have to reflect our legal shenanigans. (in the open or otherwise)

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195