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Dianne Feinstein deserves enormous credit. Fox News and Republicans are bashing her and by extension her party as traitorous as we speak. The argument that this report should be kept in secret because it endangers Americans' lives is abominable. As an American living abroad, I'm happy to see this released.

Still, I wonder about some of the side-effects of this. Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy.

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The report didn't endanger American lives; their actions did.

> Still, I wonder about some of the side-effects of this. Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy.

We were killing plenty of people in the War on Terror while the detentions and torture were going on (heck, the torture was sold in part on the basis that it was helping us find and kill people that needed killing in that war.) And some of those tortured also died as a result.

Torture and killing aren't mutually exclusive alternatives.

It's really disappointing that she does support the NSA's extrajudicial activities, though, to the point of calling Snowden a traitor.

C'est la vie :P

This does nothing to help my view of her.

It was her job in the first place to keep this from happening. The fact that this report even needed to happen is a result of her committee's inability to provide the oversight that they are tasked with.

I think a drone strike is pretty fucking messy. What a drone strike does is move the mess to a place that's easy to conceal from American citizens.

I would rather be killed than tortured, obviously depending on the type of torture.

Look into her history. Before she was against it, she was for it.

She was in favor of what, exactly?

>> Instead of arresting and interrogating terrorists we kill them with drones as its less messy.

Less messy, less dirty, less dirty hands etc etc. Yeah right. I wonder how the drone operators sleep at night after a "successful" hit at e.g. a wedding ceromony etc.

Drone kills are still plain evil. And illegal.

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