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"Government agents who tortured or even killed prisoners on the president's authority were immune from prosecution."
"The president's authority"? Do they actually give him any? That's scary.
Hopefully this story won't be going away any time soon: a Pentagon memo created for Darth Rumsfeld cast serious doubt on the Bush misadministration's insistence that its treatment of prisoners followed the Geneva conventions - rather, thanks to political appointees overruling military lawyers, W was not bound by US and international law and had carte blanche to do pretty much anything, including torture.
BTW, a Justice memo says anything less than 'the equivalence of pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death' is not torture.
How about pics of a topless Condoleezza Rice?
June 8, 2004
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