Cheney vs. Koppel on Absolute Security Against Terrorism
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(Cross posted at Daily Kos)
[W]e've done a hell of a job here at home, in terms of homeland security, in terms of the terrorist surveillance program we've put in place, in terms of the financial tracking program we put in place, and because of our detainee policy, where we, in fact, were able to interrogate captured terrorists ...
Translation: Warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention of citizens, torture -- no price is too big to pay to ensure the security of the American people.
There is, I believe, only one country in the world that can guarantee absolute security against terrorism -- absolute security: North Korea. That would be at the cost of every and all liberties. What we're talking about here is a calibration of the balance between security and liberty....it is an enormously sophisticated and complex debate. I only hope that we have more of it before it's too late.It's later than you think, Ted.
Suggestions, for example, that we should withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, simply feed into that whole notion [and] validate the strategy of the terrorists.If the Republicans hold control of the House and the Senate, it sounds like all of us (including Ted Koppel) will have lost that debate.
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