ARREST BUSH

[chat_noir]

Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!

NEW YORK--"Why are we talking about this in the White House?" John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft.)

"History will not judge this kindly," Ashcroft predicted.

"This" is torture. Against innocent people. Conducted by CIA agents and American soldiers and marines. Sanctioned by legal opinions issued by Ashcroft's Justice Department. Directly ordered by George W. Bush.

An April 11th report by ABC News describes how CIA agents, asked by previous presidents to carry out illegal "black ops" actions (torture and killings), had become tired of getting hung out to dry whenever their dirty deeds were revealed by the press. When the Bush Administration asked the CIA to work over prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, Director George Tenet demanded legal cover. The Justice Department complied by issuing a classified 2002 memo, the so-called "Golden Shield," authored by Office of Legal Counsel Jay Bybee. "Enhanced interrogation techniques"--i.e., torture--were legal, Bybee assured the CIA.

Tenet was a good boss, a CYA type. He wanted to protect his agents. So he got the Principals to personally sign off on each act of torture.

http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?uc_full_date=20080429&uc_comic=ru

[DrDan]

1. sad to think of what this country has turned in to . . .

[ogsbee]

2. Just watch, none of these people will be able to leave the U.S. once out of office

Here at home (in the homeland - using their phrase) Citizen's Arrest simply means filing a complaint (unless stopping a crime in process of being committed) and I don't think most police departments would take the complaint. So for the time being it seems we can only dream. Torture is an absolute crime, no matter what Lindsay Graham and others say. Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, etc. interrogators, commanders and even guards may come to be considered like Nazi war criminals fearing arrest for the rest of their lives.

[electropop]

3. Will there be an Eli Wiesel, hounding them to the ends of the earth and the end of their days?

I think there may be a horde of Eli Wiesels.

[babylonsister]

4. I'd applaud. nt