About the Obama administration's view that we should not try terrorism suspects in our federal courts because it might jeopardize national security. This argument is based on the commonly-held assumption that our leaders know "stuff" that allows them to keep us safe, stuff we don't know and can't know. If we knew it then we would be less safe. So better to leave it alone.
A real leap of faith here. Kinda like saying, in the face of some personal catastrophe, that God's ways are not our ways, that He has a plan that we can't possibly fathom, so better to just not worry our tiny little heads about it and place our trust in God. "He won't give you any more suffering than you can bear." Yea. Right.
Very convenient for politicians, of course, who more often than not are up to no good behind our backs and so have every reason to discourage transparency in government. Yes, let's not try these alleged terrorists in public, lest we discover that many of them are innocent, have been treated abominably, and that the officials responsible for this travesty are known.
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