2nd March 2014, 12:30 PM
Well, after some thought I remembered they actually were making a similar argument when there was a bigger push to actually TRY the illegally detained prisoners in a court of law. The fear was having "them" here on "US soil". Nothing specific, just vague "fear" they might somehow kill people or something.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)