War Criminals
Dec 19th, 2007 at 8:05 am by Susie
I wrote about this several years ago, and I don’t have time to go back and dig it out right now, but it seemed clear to me from the start that the Bush executive power grab was in large part driven by the need to protect Bush and his officials from being charged as war criminals.
Which, of course, they are. But they seem to have gotten away with it, aided and abetted by lack of any sustained opposition from the half-assed Congressional Democrats:
WASHINGTON — At least four top White House lawyers took part in discussions with the Central Intelligence Agency between 2003 and 2005 about whether to destroy videotapes showing the secret interrogations of two operatives from Al Qaeda, according to current and former administration and intelligence officials.
The accounts indicate that the involvement of White House officials in the discussions before the destruction of the tapes in November 2005 was more extensive than Bush administration officials have acknowledged.
Those who took part, the officials said, included Alberto R. Gonzales, who served as White House counsel until early 2005; David S. Addington, who was the counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney and is now his chief of staff; John B. Bellinger III, who until January 2005 was the senior lawyer at the National Security Council; and Harriet E. Miers, who succeeded Mr. Gonzales as White House counsel.
War crimes? ha!
One word: PARAGUAY
Link: http://wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php
God, if only they were half-assed. Pelosi was just saying that as late as last year she simply assumed — against all experience and any sane expectation, so far as I can see — that the Republicans “would soon see the light” and bring the troops home.
Half-assed would be a big step up from there.
With kind regards,
Dog, etc.
papertrained!