Pensito review/Turley: White House torture planning was like a ‘meeting of the Bada Bing club’
source: http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/04/12/turley-bush-torture-conspirators-like-a-meeting-of-t...
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In the 1990s, Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor and constitutional expert, was a strong advocate for impeaching Pres. Bill Clinton because Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky while under oath in a deposition for a civil lawsuit.
The issue today is far more serious. According to ABC News, starting in 2002, senior Bush officials, including Vice President Cheney and Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice, who was then the national security adviser, were involved hands-on in drafting torture guidelines for the CIA. Because torture is illegal under U.S. and international law, Jonathan Turley says he believes the drafting of these guidelines was a war crime. (See video above from MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on April 10.)
Late Friday afternoon, George Bush confirmed to ABC News that Cheney, Rice and the other officials — including then-Sec. of State Colin Powell, then-Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft, then-Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, then-CIA Director George Tenet and their aides — were working at his behest.
This new development — the president’s admission that he commissioned alleged war crimes — is being ignored completely on cable news on Saturday. It will be interesting to see if it makes it onto the Sunday political shows, including even ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous.”
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ocanada
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Infuriating, absolutely infuriating.
- 3 years ago
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ocanada
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jh64487
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Eventually Bush will stand trial for his crimes, but he won't ever face punishment because he's part of the power elite and the majority of america couldn't focus on the issue long enough to enforce it. Just like Scooter got off, so too will Bush. Skull and Bones baby!
- 3 years ago
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jh64487
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Vierotchka
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At the time, that's basically what I said, that the orders and the details came straight from Bush and the White House. These people are psychopaths. This is a capital offense. There is even talk of their also having dictated the fine details of sexual abuse and torture - it probably also gave them much perverted sexual gratification.
I have also heard/read that the reason why Pelosi and Conyers backpedalled on impeachment is because the White House threatened to declare a national emergency, martial law, and suspend presidential elections indefinitely should they go ahead with impeachment proceedings. I believe this may very well be true - it is totally in character with those psychopaths. A good resource to understand psychopaths like that can be found by googling "ponerology".
- 3 years ago
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Vierotchka
