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— Jeremy Scahill"I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic."
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My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.
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