Website review: Torturers in the White House: Why I...
gwicks56 discovered this in Liberties/Rights
•28 reviews since Apr 17, 2008
liberties, politics, torture
•alternet.org/rights/82483/
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gwicks56 discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "We now have confirmation that the President of the United States gave the OK to torture. Where is the media? Where are the Democrats?" The media had bigger fish to fry last night: they were busy asking Hillary about duck hunting and ducking sniper sniper fire, while asking Barack about something a minister said that he had already stated he disagreed with.
- largeGROUCH rated 3 months ago
- Torturers in the White House: Why Is This Story Being Ignored? By Ruth Conniff, The Progressive. Posted April 17, 2008. We now have confirmation that the President of the United States gave the OK to torture. Where is the media? Where are the Democrats? 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: CONTINUED BELOW
- dubmecrazy rated 3 months ago
- It's this kind of thing that made me leave the Democratic Party and go with the Green Party.
- blacsoc rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "Torturers in the White House: Why Is This Story Being Ignored?"Remember Germany and how long they've had to live with their countrys past. Being deaf dumb and fuckin blind to whats happening does'nt mean your going to be remembered any differently.The media have they're heads up their arses once again
- AshleyAniston rated 3 months ago
- Nothing new here. The latest iteration of a fifth column that has for decades given direct and indirect aid to our nation's enemies. thanks for info......
- imac-man rated 3 months ago
- Besides pushing and slapping and making mass-murdering terrorists wear women's underwear on their head, Bush has secretly given the go ahead to interrogators to play ABBA's Greatest Hits non-stop.
- 91KP rated 3 months ago
- Where are the democrats? Where the hell do you think they were? Standing right next to all of the other "rulers". Or perhaps like Obama, conviently "out of the room" every time something immoral or wrong took place. Really a problem with transparency of government and power of same, the other aspects of it are just bullshit.
- mxe806j02 rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "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."
- rainbowparrot rated 3 months ago
- nothing new. US gov can torture prisoners, can wiretap phones without court order. mainstreet media doesn't show any interesting to report it.
- mindoculus rated 3 months ago
- Nothing new here. The latest iteration of a fifth column that has for decades given direct and indirect aid to our nation's enemies. These moral savages are just too civilized for the rest of us and, like their forebears, will suffer a slow humiliating defeat.
