So Dubya finally came out and just admitted it; he approved of torture on U.S. detainees, an act that would very likely get him convicted of war crimes if he were anyone but the President of the United States of America.
As Dick Cheney is fond of saying… “So?”
The real shame of this nation is that we have sunk so low that our Criminal in Chief can flat out publicly admit violating the law and no one, not Congress, not the media, not anyone that truly matters, will even attempt to hold him accountable.
What a flock of sheep we have become.
No wonder John McCain thinks he will be our next president. We are so fixated on issues like who uses the word “bitter” that we don’t pay attention to any real issues. Questions like why are we still in Iraq, and why we are bailing out financial moguls that made piss poor decisions about the investing of their clients assets. Who cares about health care when someone asked Chelsea Clinton about Monica? Why should we be straining our brains over the corporate domination of our lives when we can write about what crappy bowlers Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are?
As the bumper sticker says… If you aren’t disgusted, then you aren’t paying attention.
Bush Aware of Advisers’ Interrogation Talks
President Says He Knew His Senior Advisers Discussed Tough Interrogation Methods
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
April 11, 2008President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday.
“Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people.” Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. “And yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.”
As first reported by ABC News Wednesday, the most senior Bush administration officials repeatedly discussed and approved specific details of exactly how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the CIA.
The high-level discussions about these “enhanced interrogation techniques” were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed — down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.
These top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects — whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding, sources told ABC news.
