Posted on 04/13/2008 11:31:53 AM PDT by Jay777
In a stunning admission to ABC news Friday night, President Bush declared that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIAs use of torture. Bush reportedly told ABC, Im aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved. Bush also defended the use of waterboarding.
Recent reports indicate that high-level advisers including Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell and George Tenet were part of the National Security Councils Principals Committee that met regularly and approved the CIAs use of combined enhanced interrogation techniques, even pushing the limits of the now infamous 2002 Justice Department torture memo. These top advisers reportedly signed off on how the CIA would interrogate suspects whether they would be slapped, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning.
We have always known that the CIAs use of torture was approved from the very top levels of the U.S. government, yet the latest revelations about knowledge from the president himself and authorization from his top advisers only confirms our worst fears, said Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU. It is a very sad day when the president of the United States subverts the Constitution, the rule of law, and American values of justice.
Romero added, It is more important than ever that the U.S. government, when seeking justice against those it suspects of harming us, adhere to our commitment to due process and the rule of law. Thats why the ACLU has taken the extraordinary step to offer our assistance to those being prosecuted under the unconstitutional military commissions process.
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Simple.
Geneva Conventions do not apply to terrorist thugs (why sign on to that treaty if it applied to everybody?). US Constitution does not apply to non-citizens.
I couldn’t care a bleep about what the ACLU thinks about this.
“Investigate”? LOL...
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