The latest move is a proposal to grant amnesty to Bush and everyone involved in torture.
They know it was illegal and they know these people can be arrested by any country anywhere
in the world.
"This week, the Senate is planning to quietly hold a vote that would pardon President Bush
for breaking the law by illegally wiretapping innocent Americans without warrants. According
to Senator Leahy, the bill would "...immunize officials who have violated federal law by
authorizing such illegal activities." http://www.bordc.org/threats/leahy91306.php
This literally declares that the entire White House was engaged in criminal activity.
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Robert Paul wrote:
Lawrence Helm wrote:
So Bush is doing two things. He is appealing the Judges decision and he is attempting to get legislation through congress defining the latitude the CIA has in interrogating terrorist suspects.
Previously, the US was bound by the treaties it was party to and by its own laws. What a concept.
Bush isn't trying to change the latitude the CIA "HAS" in interrogation; he's trying to change the latitude that the CIA "ALREADY DID" in interrogating prisoners. This seems to be quite a mess, especially after Bush made the whole thing explicit by asking for legislation.
EITHER the whole mess is much ado about nothing, because we've been following the Geneva conventions all along, OR we cannot possibly bring the really bad people to trial because we've tortured them in ways that not only would bring the scorn of previously neutral parties, including Muslims, Europeans, Asians of good will, but would also make their conviction impossible.
Fast forward five years: The really bad people in Guantanamo, the people that ALL of us would like to see locked up, are free to go because Bush's directives violated international treaties and U.S. constitutional provisions.
And I still hear some people saying, in a tiny voice, that torture is "necessary" for U.S. security. "Previously" we were not only bound by treaties and laws, we actually did things that increased U.S. security at the same time. Ah, the "good old days."
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