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Torturers in the White House

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

The biggest news of the last week went virtually uncovered by the mainstream, print media. ABC News first reported last Wednesday that top Bush Administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, and George Tenet, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld met to discuss which particular torture techniques should be used against Al Qaeda suspects in U.S. custody.

The group signed off on specific techniques, including sleep deprivation, slapping, pushing, and waterboarding, and gave instruction “so detailed . . . some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed, down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.”

If John McCain is seriously considering Condoleezza Rice as a running mate, the former POW should keep in mind that Rice not only condoned torture, but chaired the National Security Council’s “Principals Committee” meetings to plan the details of torture of prisoners in U.S. custody.

Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft was so troubled by the meetings, he was moved to object: “Why are we discussing this in the White House?” he asked, according to ABC. “History will not judge this kindly.”

On Friday, ABC added this blockbuster: Bush himself was aware of the meetings. Unlike Ashcroft, he had no compunctions. There was nothing “startling” about the revelations that his top advisers were directing the waterboarding of individual prisoners, Bush told ABC’s Martha Raddatz. “And yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue and I approved,” Bush said.

Why is this not bigger news?

Remember when the nation was brought to a virtual standstill over Bill Clinton’s affair with a White House intern?

We now have confirmation that the President of the United States gave the OK for his national security team to violate international law and plot the sordid details of torture. The Democrats in Congress should be raising the roof.

House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers, to his credit, has suggested subpoenaing the members of the Principals Committee, calling their actions “a stain on our democracy.”

Conyers also threatened last week to subpoena John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer whose recently declassified 2003 torture memos attempted to give legal cover to practices such as waterboarding.

Such techniques, as long as their sole purpose wasn’t sadism, were acceptable, Yoo wrote. Being a sadist was presumably necessary but not sufficient qualification for employment in the Bush White House.

In his new book The Terror Presidency, Yoo’s colleague Jack Goldsmith writes about his evolution from friend and supporter of the officials who brought us to this pass to a conscientious objector to their illegal and morally corrupt practices.

Back when he worked for Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, Goldsmith wrote a memo warning that Bush Administration officials could be indicted by the International Criminal Court for their actions in the war on terror.

After he went to work for Justice, Goldsmith began standing up to the torture cabal at the White House–to his enduring discomfort. In one incident, recounted in his book and in a September profile by Jeffrey Rosen of the New York Times Magazine, he knocked heads with Dick Cheney’s advisor (now his chief of staff) David Addington. Goldsmith delivered the bad news that terror suspects were, in fact, covered by the Fourth Geneva Convention against torture of civilians: “’The president has already decided that terrorists do not receive Geneva Convention protections,’” Addington replied angrily, according to Goldsmith. ‘You cannot question his decision.’”

Goldsmith also criticized the torture memos for their “extremely broad and unnecessary analysis of the President’s Commander-in-Chief power” and for their extremely loose definition of torture as limited to causing a level of pain akin to organ failure.

Pointing out that the Administration was violating the War Crimes Act of 1996, the Geneva Conventions, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Goldmith withdrew Yoo’s torture memos–and promptly resigned his post.

Even after losing that flimsy legal cover, Bush and the other members of the Principals Committee appear unrepentant and undeterred.

Goldsmith, who now teaches law at Harvard, is no civil libertarian, but like John Ashcroft and John McCain, he has spoken out against executive lawlessness.

No doubt he would have plenty to tell the House Judiciary Committee. And perhaps the International Criminal Court as well.

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8 Responses to “Torturers in the White House”

Bob
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

The Bush regime engineered 9-11. What do you expect?

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Gan
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

Can you prove that Bob? Without sending me to conspiracy sites, if you please.

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Charlie Dawn
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

Uh oh troofer alert.

Making sweeping statements that have no foundation in reality isn’t the best move you can make here.

Tell us what does 9/11 has to do with this report. It’s common for troofers to sidetrack us with conspiracy theories when they are presented with factual information they can’t grasp.

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Bob
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

The point is: They’re all part of the same “shady”.

Don’t give into the conspiracy theories. Just stick to the conspiracy FACTS.

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Static X
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

“The Bush regime engineered 9-11″ in other words you’re saying “9-11 was an inside job” correct?

Please provide some FACTS to support this claim. Yes the Bush regime are criminals, yes they are “shady” but what a giant leap from that to “The Bush regime engineered 9-11″ without any supporting evidence.

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Bob
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 10:56 pm

Known FACTS:

Bush + Ladens long time business partners.
Marvin Bush in charge of security of WTCs on 9-11 (and all video from the security cameras mysteriously disappeared).
On Sunday night, September 17, 2001, in the Providence of the risen Son of God, CBS’s television program titled “60 Minutes” revealed that President Bush’s close associates had suddenly, and inexplicably, sold all their airline stock only a few days before the “terrorist” attacks.
Condoleeza Rice Warned Willie Brown Not To Fly On 911.

Read about PNAC too.

What do you want? A signed confession? These guys need to be held accountable.

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Thomas Robert Allison Jr
Posted: Apr 20th, 2008 at 10:53 pm

I have been torchered since January 2002 by the Missouri Police. You wouldn’t believe it but all of the technology they use on me is proven by them. Some police admit it. David Snarr of the Missouri Highway Patrol Task Force had saved my life in 1995 while he was a deputy at the Macon County Sheriff’s Dept. in Missouri.

Snarr admitted to teaching the Moberly Police Dept.to use their E911 Enhanced Communication Satellite System with a Terrestrial Trunked Radio System where they can interrogate you and listen to your thoughts by locking onto your brains receptors with radio waves. A wireless router on some computers are 2.4 Ghz frequency. The brains receptors are on a different frequency and this is where the terrestrial radio system comes in, since it will scan all frequencies to pick up on receptors.

It’s all in the US Patent Office, etc. and I will provide a link on some sites. Over six years of this torcher on me because I can prove I’m a victim of Police Misconduct, Fraud by Missouri Government, etc.

http://courtdirt.angelfire.com/manufactured_dwi_of_1985/

http://www.surveillanceissues.com/

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/09/domestic_surveillance/

PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES
The Neurophone: U.S. Patent #3,393,279.
July 16th, 1968. Inventor - Dr Patrick Flanagan (Invented 1958).
Description: A device that converts sound to electrical impulses; allowing information to be transmitted to the brain by means of radio waves directed at any part of the body (skin). In other words, recorded or live messages, noise, music can be directed at an individual and, through the nerves, the signal will be carried (involuntarily) to the brain, bypassing the inner ear, the cochlea, and the 8th cranial nerve.
Purpose: Practically, the Neurophone could be used to communicate with the deaf but, more often, it is used to terrorise political/military targets. The tracked individuals hear recorded/live threats, propaganda etc, which those around them do not hear (delivered mainly via satellite laser). This harasses and discredits the targets; especially if the problem is communicated to those unaware of the relevant technologies

OTHER KNOWN TECHNOLOGIES CURRENTLY UNDER SECRECY ORDERS
Brainwave Scanners/Programs: First program developed in 1994 by Dr. Donald York & Dr. Thomas Jensen.
Description: A personal scanning and tracking system involving the monitoring of an individuals EMF via remote means; eg. Satellite. The results are fed to thought activated computers that possess a complete brainwave vocabulary.
Purpose: Practically, communication with stroke victims and brain-activated control of modern jets are two applications. However, more often, it is used to mentally rape a civilian target; their thoughts being referenced immediately and/or recorded for future use.
Note: In conjunction with Neurophone technology, this is a mechanism for remote interrogation/torture via satellite.

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Amerikagulag
Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm

911 changed everything, remember? Even reality and the laws of physics, morality, the definition of war, everything! Mercenaries are called “contractors” and our ‘brave men and women’ in the military are ‘fighting to protect or freedom’.

pfffft! Liars, thieves, murderers and torturers. And they’ll all get off scot free. There is no accountability, no consequences. Laws are only for the poor to follow.

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