Detaining and Interrogating Terror Suspects

Does this guy EVER tell the truth?

Sen. Lindsey Graham went too far with his claim that the Obama administration has a policy of “not interrogating or detaining terrorist suspects anymore.” The administration no longer subjects terrorism suspects to indefinite interrogation at Guantanamo Bay — a policy Graham opposes — but it still detains and interrogates terrorism suspects.

The South Carolina Republican made his comments during a CNN interview on Jan. 7 when he was asked whether the U.S. ought to raise the terror threat level in response to the killing of 12 people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.

Graham said he thought the U.S. should, and he warned that sequester budget cuts would hamper intelligence gathering.

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The Recent Bombing In America That You Probably Didn't Hear About On The News

The NAACP, whose members are not strangers to violence, was attacked by a domestic terrorist at a Colorado chapter on Jan. 6, 2015. No one was injured. The gas can on the explosive didn't ignite.

Here are some tweets that I think give some important commentary on the incident.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has one historical perspective about the incident.

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Police Visit Home After ‘Pressure Cooker’ Googles

A blog post by a Long Island woman went viral after she wrote that members of the “joint terrorism task force” came to her home because she’d been Googling “pressure cookers” and her husband had been browsing backpacks online. It turns out the officials were members of the Suffolk County police department, and they’d been alerted not by the NSA’s X Keyscore program but by a tip from the woman’s husband's employer, who had noticed searches for “pressure cookers.” Still disconcerting, but more to do with snooping employers than all-seeing surveillance states.

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