Archive for the 'Geneva Accords' Category
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 2008; Page A01
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Geneva Accords |
Monday, July 14th, 2008
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via Barnes & Noble
The Outlaw Presidency
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, July 14, 2008; 12:47 PM
Another major book chronicling the descent into lawlessness of the Bush presidency is out this week. This one is by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, and it’s called “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror […]
Posted in administration, Constitution, Bush, Torture, Terrorism, Books, USA, Geneva Accords, Crime |
Friday, June 29th, 2007
The CIA’s torture teachers
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
By Mark Benjamin
Salon Magazine
A detainee is escorted by military police at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. […]
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Cheney, Education, Gonzalez, Geneva Accords, General Stupidity |
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Since the CIA interrogators mutinied in the face of illegal orders, our Prez found it necessary to re-write the Geneva Accords.
Please find the article here.
Posted in Bush, Torture, CIA, Geneva Accords |
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
The Geneva Accords’ Article III is almost six decades old. W wants to clarify it by changing it. Is this not called breaking a treaty?
Could the charges brought by the Canadian government not be the real reason for W’s need of clarification?
Please find the article here.
Posted in administration, Bush, Torture, Geneva Accords, Canada |
Saturday, September 16th, 2006
For you reading enjoyment I present an article from the Washington Post and the Congressional Quarterly transcript of the entire press conference which quickly degenerated into the President’s statements that he owned the bats, the balls and the yard and if the rest of America wanted to play, they had to givem him 8 strikes, […]
Posted in administration, Republicans, Bush, Geneva Accords |
Friday, September 15th, 2006
Senator Lindsay Graham reported that the White House had kept military legal personnel in room for five hours in order to have them sign a letter stating how they agreed with W’s wish to deep-six Article III of the Geneva Accords. Apparently, they didn’t break.
Please find the story here.
Posted in administration, Military, Bush, Terrorism, Geneva Accords |
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Secret evidence, which the defandant cannot see, has military lawyers worried vis-a-vis the Geneva Accords. Just because the court struck down these tribunals doesn’t mean King Jr. has a problem with making it up as he goes. Obviously, we want protection from terrorists, but we may need just as much protection from Dick Tirechains, the […]
Posted in administration, Law, Military, Terrorism, Geneva Accords |
