Another Thunderbolt from Wilkerson (Cheney -Addington and Torture).

[rodeodance]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html
Another Thunderbolt from Wilkerson

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, November 4, 2005; 12:45 PM

Another shocking accusation by former administration insider Lawrence Wilkerson appears to be going under the media radar today.

On NPR yesterday, the former chief of staff to the secretary of state said that he had uncovered a "visible audit trail" tracing the practice of prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers directly back to Vice President Cheney's office.
Here's the audio of Wilkerson's interview with Steve Inskeep. The transcript is not publicly available, but here are the relevant excerpts:

"INSKEEP: While in the government, he says he was assigned to gather documents. He traced just how Americans came to be accused of abusing prisoners. In 2002, a presidential memo had ordered that detainees be treated in a manner consistent with the Geneva Conventions that forbid torture. Wilkerson says the vice president's office pushed for a more expansive policy.

"Mr. WILKERSON:What happened was that the secretary of Defense, under the cover of the vice president's office, began to create an environment -- and this started from the very beginning when David Addington, the vice president's lawyer, was a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander in chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions. Regardless of the president having put out this memo, they began to authorize procedures within the armed forces that led to, in my view, what we've seen.........

[SpiralHawk]

1. Release the photos

And bring the whole sordid mess to light.

Clean the Traitors and Torturers from Washington.

[MasonJar]

2. Didn't the government only have 20 days to appeal? Obviously

these crooks will keep this in the courts until we are all dead.

[pushycat]

3. No way do I WANT to see photos, but they MUST COME OUT.

This madness of torture has ruined the US. Our international standing is gone now. As a proponent of our own Constitution, Geneva and all that the Nurmburg Trials hoped to set right, we FAIL NOW. All those bright, arrogant 'legal eagles', such as, Mr. John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Alberto Gonzales, need to be in cages while they listen to the charges.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6733213/site/newsweek/

We will pay large for this and it pisses me off a lot.