Reply #6: The excuse I'm hearing from the DOJ Dept of Justification is...

[EVDebs]

the terrorists are exploiting our freedoms, therefore we have to exploit them too. The WH advisor the other day who mentioned Sun Tzu (the Art of War) said something along those lines:

Sun Tzu and the Art of Spying
by Noah Leavitt, AlterNet. Posted January 5, 2006
http://www.alternet.org/rights/30394/

Embedded in this article is further insight on Sun Tzu's thinking on warfare which the Bush administration appears to be taking too far,

""Deception must be ongoing, and unpredictable: "Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.""

The incompetence and ineffectiveness of this administration is breathtaking. They REALLY are winning. The incompetence and ineffectiveness just gets better and better each and every day. I can hardly stand it. Truly in their puzzle palace of mirrors they have made Black equal White and 2 + 2 = Whatever.

They have taken Stalin and Churchill's admonishion about truth, 'In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies', to the extreme.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin (also attributed to Churchill, who probably stole it from...!)

They are making the entire American populace akin to Henry David Thoreau, who said
""Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison""

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henrydavid135750.html

Look on the bright side, we'll all get three squares a day and a nice orange jumpsuit to wear in a tropical prison ! Just like the dittoheads keep telling us, that too is a lie: see Operations Cable Splicer and Garden Plot, the prisons are in some cold outtatheway places.