Bush's Executive Order Authorizing Torture Is, By Itself Alone, Proof Of An International War Crime
However, it now comes to light that Bush signed an executive order authorizing torture techniques like sleep deprivation which was ignored by the corporate media in 2004.
From Jason Leopold at Public Record comes this: "An e-mail written by a senior FBI agent in Iraq in 2004 specifically stated that President George W. Bush had signed an Executive Order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.
"The FBI e-mail--dated May 22, 2004--followed disclosures about abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and sought guidance on whether FBI agents in Iraq were obligated to report the U.S. military’s harsh interrogation of inmates when that treatment violated FBI standards but fit within the guidelines of a presidential Executive Order.
"The FBI e-mail was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The White House had emphatically denied that any such presidential Executive Order existed, calling the unnamed FBI official who wrote the e-mail “mistaken.”
"The ACLU released the e-mail back in December 2004, but it received little coverage by the media. The document takes on new meaning and urgency today as pressure builds on President-elect Barack Obama to appoint a a special prosecutor to investigate whether the President and other officials broke federal and international laws, “including the War Crimes Act, the federal Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws.”
Torture is a crime and under these circumstance it is a war crime.
Dubya and his entire torture team should be in the dock at the Hague for war crimes.
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