Senate Committee Report Has Rumsfeld and Other Bushites of Directly Responsible For Torture
In the "we've known it for a long time, this isn't news department" Rumsfeld and other senior Bushties are responsible for the torture at Gitmo and elsewhere according to the accusations of the Senate Armed Services Committee report.
The question is, what does Congress plan to do about it? Going by past record, nothing.
Torture is a war crime.
As far as this Congressional report is concerned, it is like an historical echo...these senators knew about it and did nothing but issue a report. Big whoop.
And yet Bush praised this war ciminal when Dubya recently spoke at West Point. In addition Bush defended his indefensible doctrine of preventive aggression, which is also a war crime. In fact, that was one of the basic underpinnings of the Nuremburg trials.
From CommonDreams:
"A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by those officials led to serious offenses against prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere.
"The Senate Armed Services Committee report accuses Rumsfeld and his deputies of being the principal architects of the plan to use harsh interrogation techniques on captured fighters and terrorism suspects, rejecting the Bush administration's contention that the policies originated lower down the command chain.
"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody cannot simply be attributed to the actions of 'a few bad apples' acting on their own,'the panel concludes. 'The fact is that senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees.' "
Let's not forget that Bush cabinet member members like Condoleeza Rice and senior officials like George Tenet were part of the high level torture team that discussed and approved "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding.
And yet impeachment was taken off the table.
The entire criminal Bush crew should be in the dock at The Hague since Congress is still shirking its duty to hold these war criminals accountable.
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