Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, Ashcroft; Approved Torture and Dishonored Our Country
According to news reports, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Ashcroft discussed specific enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding also known as torture and approved them.
These people are despicable criminals and deserve to be in the dock at The Hague.
From ABC News via Think Progress:
"In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
"The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.
"Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.
"But this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the White House explicitly approved the details of the program.
According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them. (Underline added.)
"The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic."
This odious group of principals has disgraced themselves and dishonored this country.
The ABC report goes on: "The advisers were members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy.
"At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
"The Principals also approved interrogations that combined different methods, pushing the limits of international law and even the Justice Department's own legal approval in the 2002 memo, sources told ABC News.
"Then-National Security Advisor Rice, sources said, was decisive. Despite growing policy concerns -- shared by Powell -- that the program was harming the image of the United States abroad, sources say she did not back down, telling the CIA: 'This is your baby. Go do it.' "
And Condi is being touted as McCain's VP! How reprehensible!
Torquemada Bush knew about the torture.
The ABC report continues: " 'I can say that questioning the detainees in this program has given us the information that has saved innocent lives by helping us stop new attacks here in the United States and across the world," Bush said in a speech in September 2006.
As I wrote in a post in February, "His Bushite, loyalist, hypocrite flunky, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, protecting Dubya from possible war crimes prosecution, disgustingly refuses to admit that waterboarding is torture, although the United States punished as war criminals those who used waterboarding against American POWs during WWII."
Waterboarding is torture and a violation of Geneva Conventions. The other so called "enhanced interrogation techniques" of sleep deprivation, standing in one position for hours, shackled in painful positions, etc. are all torture and violate human rights.
Even a group of WWII American military interrogators denounced Bush's torture techniques.
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Ashcroft should be in The Hague for war crimes: approving, aiding, and abetting torture.
And impeachment is still off the table.
For God's sake, Nancy Pelosi, what does it take to convince you high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed? If you're that ignorant and continue to condone obvious presidential crimes by keeping impeachment off the table you should resign your position as Speaker of the House.
These people are despicable criminals and deserve to be in the dock at The Hague.
From ABC News via Think Progress:
"In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
"The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.
"Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.
"But this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the White House explicitly approved the details of the program.
According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them. (Underline added.)
"The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic."
This odious group of principals has disgraced themselves and dishonored this country.
The ABC report goes on: "The advisers were members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy.
"At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.
"The Principals also approved interrogations that combined different methods, pushing the limits of international law and even the Justice Department's own legal approval in the 2002 memo, sources told ABC News.
"Then-National Security Advisor Rice, sources said, was decisive. Despite growing policy concerns -- shared by Powell -- that the program was harming the image of the United States abroad, sources say she did not back down, telling the CIA: 'This is your baby. Go do it.' "
And Condi is being touted as McCain's VP! How reprehensible!
Torquemada Bush knew about the torture.
The ABC report continues: " 'I can say that questioning the detainees in this program has given us the information that has saved innocent lives by helping us stop new attacks here in the United States and across the world," Bush said in a speech in September 2006.
As I wrote in a post in February, "His Bushite, loyalist, hypocrite flunky, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, protecting Dubya from possible war crimes prosecution, disgustingly refuses to admit that waterboarding is torture, although the United States punished as war criminals those who used waterboarding against American POWs during WWII."
Waterboarding is torture and a violation of Geneva Conventions. The other so called "enhanced interrogation techniques" of sleep deprivation, standing in one position for hours, shackled in painful positions, etc. are all torture and violate human rights.
Even a group of WWII American military interrogators denounced Bush's torture techniques.
Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Ashcroft should be in The Hague for war crimes: approving, aiding, and abetting torture.
And impeachment is still off the table.
For God's sake, Nancy Pelosi, what does it take to convince you high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed? If you're that ignorant and continue to condone obvious presidential crimes by keeping impeachment off the table you should resign your position as Speaker of the House.
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