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Comment Cheney a maltraité sa puissance dans la guerre sur la terreur
Dimanche 1er juillet 2007
Par Marin de Tim Vice-président Dick Cheney était personnellement responsable des politiques américaines qui ont soumis des suspects de terroriste à la cruauté et refusés leur la droite à une épreuve juste, selon des révélations des fonctionnaires de gouvernement aînés des USA.
Les détails ont transmis nu plus que jamais à l'influence remarquable de M. Cheney en formant la poursuite de la guerre sur la terreur qui a mené au scandales chez Guant ? compartiment et Abu Ghraib de namo. Les réclamations que M. Cheney manoeuvré pour éviter le droit américain et international est venues pendant que le vice-président la semaine dernière faisait face à trois nouvelles demandes congressionnelles qu'il libèrent l'information sur ses activités. Même ses défenseurs ont admis que les révélations ont M. gauche Cheney ressembler à un « bandit de comique-livre » dont le mépris pour le processus, incluant dans la Maison Blanche, a miné le soutien public du Président Bush. Une année-longue recherche par le poteau de Washington a découvert des détails de la façon dont en novembre 2001 - deux mois après les atrocités du 11 septembre - vice-président Cheney est allé derrière les dos du secrétaire d'état, Colin Powell, et le conseiller de sécurité nationale, Condoleezza Rice, pour nier le terroriste étranger suspecte l'accès à une cour. Dans un dîner privé avec le Président Bush, M. Cheney l'a présenté avec un ordre écrit par son propre avocat, David Addington, refusant à des suspects une épreuve civile ou un court martial et commandant qu'ils pourraient être confinés indéfiniment sans frais. Dans une heure du repas, le document avait été signé par le président, ayant été battu directement à son bureau sur des ordres de vice-président Cheney, sans être vu par le personnel aîné de la Maison Blanche. Mlle Rice a été décrite comme « exaspéré » et quand M. Powell appris de la décision des nouvelles de télévision qu'il s'est cassées : « Diable juste produit ? » M. Cheney alors a commandé son équipe juridique secrètement élaborer des commandes pour que les agences d'intelligence arrêtent des lettres, des appels téléphoniques et des communications électroniques à et de l'Amérique, sans garantie - quelque chose interdite par loi fédérale depuis 1978. La semaine dernière, le comité judiciaire de sénat puissant publié cite à M. Cheney et la Maison Blanche, exigeant l'accès aux documents concernant cette décision. Then, in January 2002, Mr Cheney decided that America must abandon the Geneva Conventions governing the treatment of enemy prisoners, which outlawed torture. He personally commissioned legal opinions that would maintain a ban on torture but permit “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation methods. A document drawn up by Mr Addington was adopted, verbatim, by President Bush. In August that year, the vice-president’s lawyer inserted a paragraph into a memo of instructions for the CIA on torture which claimed that laws forbidding any person to “commit torture do not apply” to the president because that would be a restriction of his right to wage war. The US Supreme Court has since given three rulings contradicting Vice-President Cheney’s view of the president’s powers, culminating in June with a demand for the Guant?namo inmates to face trial. But Mr Cheney is accused of continuing to try to bypass international law. When the Senate voted in 2005 to support the Geneva Conventions, Vice-President Cheney - defying opposition from the CIA, the Pentagon, and state and justice departments had a clause inserted into the bill, which meant that the US military is bound by it but not the CIA. The revelations paint a picture of a man obsessed by secrecy and the accumulation of power. The vice-president keeps even routine papers in a safe in his office, refuses to disclose the names or the size of his staff and has ordered the Secret Service to destroy his visitor logs. He has even created his own security designation, stamping “Treated As: Top Secret/SCI” (special compartmented intelligence) on mundane papers, in an attempt to protect what are in fact unclassified documents. The classification suggests that their disclosure could cause “exceptionally grave damage to national security”. He even put the Top Secret stamp on a paper detailing talking points for officials to use with the press - information he actually wanted to be made public. Mr Cheney also ordered that images of his official residence be pixelated on the Google Earth website, which features satellite photographs, while the White House and Capitol remain fully visible. He is now under investigation by the House of Representatives committee on government oversight for refusing to follow a long-standing directive ordering his office, among other government agencies, to hand over to the National Archives details of how he uses classified information. When challenged, he recommended abolition of the archive office. Last week Mr Cheney and Mr Addington tried to argue that he was not bound by the rules, claiming that he is not part of the executive branch of government because he also acts as president of the Senate. They abandoned that position when congressional Democrats threatened to strip him of his executive funding. “He’s saying he’s above the law,” said Henry Waxman, the Democratic chairman of the oversight committee. Vice-President Cheney has previously claimed executive privilege - the opposite excuse - in refusing to hand over details of which oil companies he consulted when drawing up American energy policy. The Washington Post series also detailed how he ordered the diversion of a river to irrigate farms in Oregon, in pursuit of farmers’ votes, despite scientific evidence that this would endanger two protected species of fish. The move killed 80,000 salmon. Last week that issue became the subject of an inquiry by another House committee. Allies say Mr Cheney is unrepentant. “The only person in Washington who cares less about his public image than David Addington is Dick Cheney,” said a former White House ally. “What both of them miss is that in times of war, a prerequisite for success is people having confidence in their leadership. This is the great failure of the administration - a complete and total indifference to public opinion.” Have Your Say: How Cheney abused his power in war on terror Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. One Response to “How Cheney abused his power in war on terror”
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