Torturers op de Witte Algemene Vergadering
Door Ruth Conniff
Het grootste nieuws van vorige week ging dat vrijwel door de heersende stroming, drukmedia aan het licht wordt gebracht. Nieuws ABC eerst gerapporteerd vorige Woensdag ambtenaren van dat kwamen de hoogste Beleid van Bush, met inbegrip van Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, en George Tenet, Colin Powell, en Donald Rumsfeld samen om te bespreken welke bijzondere martelingstechnieken tegen Al Qaeda verdachten in de V.S. zouden moeten worden gebruikt. bewaring.
De groep ondertekende weg op specifieke technieken, met inbegrip van slaapontbering, slapping, duwend, en waterboarding, en gaf zo gedetailleerde instructie „. . . enkele ondervragingszittingen waren bijna choreographed, onderaan aan het aantal tijden konden de agenten van de CIA een specifieke tactiek gebruiken.“
Als John McCain ernstig Condoleezza Rice als lopende partner beschouwt, zou vroegere POW in mening moeten houden dat de Rijst niet alleen marteling vergaf, maar de vergaderingen van de Hoofden van de Nationale Veiligheidsraad van het „Comité“ voorzat om de details van marteling van gevangenen in de V.S. te plannen. bewaring.
De toen-procureur Algemene John Ashcroft werd zo verontrust door de vergaderingen, werd hij verplaatst naar voorwerp: „Waarom wij zijn die dit op de Witte Algemene Vergadering bespreken?“ hij vroeg, volgens ABC. De „geschiedenis zal dit niet.“ vriendelijk beoordelen
Voor Vrijdag, voegde ABC dit kassucces toe: Bush zelf was zich bewust van de vergaderingen. In tegenstelling tot Ashcroft, had hij geen compunctions. Er waren niets „opschrikkend“ over de revelaties dat zijn hoogste adviseurs het waterboarding van individuele gevangenen leidden, Bush verteld Martha Raddatz van ABC. „En ja, ben ik bewust ons nationale veiligheidsteam op deze kwestie samenkwam en ik goedkeurde,“ bovengenoemd Bush.
Waarom is dit geen groter nieuws?
Wanneer herinner de natie aan een virtuele stilstand over de zaak van Bill Clinton met een intern van het Witte Huis werd gebracht?
Wij hebben nu bevestiging dat de President van de Verenigde Staten o.k. voor zijn nationale veiligheidsteam gaf om internationale wet te overtreden en de gemene details van marteling in kaart te brengen. De democraten in Congres zouden het dak moeten opheffen.
Stoel John Conyers van het Comité van het huis heeft de Gerechtelijke, aan zijn krediet, voorgesteld dagvaardend de leden van het Comité van Hoofden, dat hun acties roept een „vlek op onze democratie.“
Conyers dreigde ook vorige week om John Yoo, de vroegere advocaat van de Afdeling van de Rechtvaardigheid te dagvaarden de van wie onlangs vrijgegeven de martelingsmemoranda van 2003 probeerden om wettelijke dekking aan praktijken te geven zoals het waterboarding.
Dergelijke technieken, zolang hun enig doel geen sadisme was, waren aanvaardbaar, schreef Yoo. 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”
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Bob
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm | Link to this
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Gan
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:29 pm | Link to this
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Charlie Dawn
Posted: Apr 16th, 2008 at 4:38 pm | Link to this
ReplyUh 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 | Link to this
ReplyThe 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 | Link to this
Reply“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 | Link to this
ReplyKnown 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 | Link to this
ReplyI 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 technologiesOTHER 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. -
Amerikagulag
Posted: Apr 21st, 2008 at 5:05 pm | Link to this
Reply911 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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