Informant38

sharper than what the public saw:

...just 37 years after Apollo 11, it is feared the magnetic tapes that recorded the first moon walk - beamed to the world via three tracking stations, including Parkes's famous "Dish" - have gone missing at NASA's Goddard Space Centre in Maryland.
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A desperate search has begun amid concerns the tapes will disintegrate to dust before they can be found.The only known equipment on which the original analogue tapes can be decoded is at a Goddard centre set to close in October, raising fears that even if they are found before they deteriorate, copying them may be impossible.

Macey/MorningHerald(AU) 05.Aug.06
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Meanwhile...

The Bush administration drafted amendments to a war crimes law to eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Aljazeera.com 09.Aug.06
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reliable and useful:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the administration was still drafting its plan, but that it would propose trying enemy combatants based on military court martial procedures - although with a number of key changes.

Those include admitting hearsay evidence, limiting rights against self-incrimination before a trial, and limiting defendants' access to classified information.

Gonzales also told the Senate Armed Services Committee the administration's current thinking was to allow testimony obtained by coercion if it was reliable and useful.
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In a testy exchange, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who was tortured as a war prisoner in Vietnam, asked whether testimony obtained by illegal or inhumane means could be used.

After a long pause, Gonzales said that would depend on how inhumane was defined.

Vicki Allen/Reuters-WaPo 02.Aug.06
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It also depends, greatly, on who it's being defined at. Not by, at.
Talking to aliens about the need to preserve humane virtues is a particularly human thing to do. Scorn and ridicule attending.
Which is not to say those virtues don't need defending, and championing, and yes, even defining.
But not to ersatz-humans like Gonzales.