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[edit] Enhanced interrogation
I notice that a lot of times the words 'enhanced interrogation' appear in quotes for no apparent reason. I think this comes across as a bit POV. Putting the words in quotes seem to suggest that the term is a euphemism for torture, which is a matter of opinion. In keeping with the Wikipedia page for Enhanced Interrogation, which only uses the words in quotes when it is specifically being quoted, I'm erasing the quotes.
I've also deleted the paragraph that only reads: "'We have been through a dark and painful chapter in our history,' President Barack Obama said." Quite frankly, it lacks context, and contributes nothing to the article, and doesn't even specifically mention torture or enhanced interrogation.
Quite frankly, there's a lot of problems with the article. But I don't feel like inciting an edit war this close to finals. Joker1189 (talk)
[edit] Bradley Manning
Perhaps time to include details of the case of Bradley Manning - problematic detention conditions and he could now face the death penalty according to the Guardian. Amnesty International has taken up the case. Pexise (talk) 16:09, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Human rights OF the United States?
I think it looks a bit odd to read about the war of terrorism and the Abu Ghraib prison torture when the article is about human rights IN the United States - after all, these incidents did not happen in the United States! What about renaming the article to human rights OF the United States? That would allow us to include the human rights track reocrd of the United States that occurred in other countries or in relation to non-Americans.Craddocktm (talk) 00:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Japanese internment
No mention of Japanese interment? I would especially like to see the legal justification that was used for denying them their rights under american law. 68.188.25.170 (talk) 15:38, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
- It's already in Human rights in the United States#National security exceptions
- They can legally justify things in wartime that they can't justify in peacetime. For example, the Emancipation Proclamation would not have been legal in peacetime.
- Of course, it helped to have some "civil rights" groups willing to go along with it. The National Lawyers Guild supported the FDR administration in this. But they're pretty far to the left, and many leftists were willing to do anything to protect the Soviet Motherland, which was fighting for its life at the time.
- -- Randy2063 (talk) 23:38, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Bin laden section
Obivously whoever wrote this section about the "extrajudical" killing of bin laden is either A: a Al-queda propaganda agent B:an Chinese/north korean/russian leftist-nationalist trying to defect attention from themselves or C:just plain Crazy so i will delete the section tommorow anyone agree or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.79.169.226 (talk) 15:45, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
[edit] Dead links
There are several dead links in this article, including 66-68. there may be more, just wanted to put that out there, its really inconvenient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.44.192.17 (talk) 03:15, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
