Bush on torture: I didn't do it and I'm above the law anyway
Fox News
06/22/04
President Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture laws and treaties covering prisoners of war after the invasion of Afghanistan, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized guards to strip detainees and threaten them with dogs, according to documents released Tuesday. The documents were handed out at the White House in an effort to blunt allegations that the administration had authorized torture against Al Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq. 'I have never ordered torture,' Bush said a few hours before the release. The Justice Department, meanwhile, disavowed a memo written in 2002 that appeared to justify the use of torture in the war on terror. The memo also argued that the president's wartime powers superseded anti-torture laws and treaties...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123419,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
06/22/04
President Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture laws and treaties covering prisoners of war after the invasion of Afghanistan, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized guards to strip detainees and threaten them with dogs, according to documents released Tuesday. The documents were handed out at the White House in an effort to blunt allegations that the administration had authorized torture against Al Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan and Iraq. 'I have never ordered torture,' Bush said a few hours before the release. The Justice Department, meanwhile, disavowed a memo written in 2002 that appeared to justify the use of torture in the war on terror. The memo also argued that the president's wartime powers superseded anti-torture laws and treaties...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123419,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Jun, 18:19
