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Obviously everyone who broke the law in the "war on terror" knew they were breaking the law. The point was to break the law, and to do so secretly. The plan was to deceive terrorists who believed we followed the law, who thought they knew what our limits were, who would operate just beyond those limits, and who would be caught by surprise by the secretly lawless state.
The perpetrators of these state crimes honestly believe that rule of law is and should be an illusion projected to pacify the naive, friend and foe alike.
