Fair Warning
Feb 19th, 2006 at 7:08 pm by Susie
They were warned. They just didn’t care:
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s former general counsel warned Pentagon officials two years before the Abu Ghraib prison scandal that circumventing international agreements on torture and detainees’ treatment would invite abuse, according to a published report.
Legal theories granting the president the right to authorize abuse in spite of the Geneva conventions were unlawful, dangerous and erroneous, Alberto J. Mora advised officials in a secret memo. The 22-page document was obtained by The New Yorker for a story in its Feb. 27 issue.
Navy lawyer tried to halt prison policy…
WASHINGTON — The Navy’s former general counsel warned Pentagon officials before the Abu …