On May 18, 7:00*am, dave wrote:
# 13 Is George "Bunnypants" Bush

"Bush's inaction in torture is as important as his actions. Bush failed
to fulfill legal obligations to notify Congress of the torture program.
A Senate Intelligence timeline on the torture program makes clear that
Congress was not briefed on the techniques used in the torture program
until after Abu Zubaydah had already been waterboarded. And in a 2003
letter, then House Intelligence ranking member Jane Harman shows that
she had not yet seen evidence that Bush had signed off on this policy.
This suggests President Bush did not provide the legally required notice
to Congress, violating National Security Decisions Directive-286. What
Bush did not say is as legally important as what he did say.

Yet, ultimately, Bush and whatever approval he gave the program is at
the center of the administration's embrace of torture. Condoleezza Rice
recently said, "By definition, if it was authorized by the president, it
did not violate our obligations in the Convention Against Torture."
While Rice has tried to reframe her statement, it uses the same logic
used by John Yoo and David Addington to justify the program, the
shocking claim that international and domestic laws cannot bind the
president in times of war. Bush's close allies still insist if he
authorized it, it couldn't be torture."

Dave -fwiw- Personally I 'think' that both Bush and
Cheney should be Accountable;

and Said They Asked For The Legal Advisements
On What Constitutes Torture :

State That They Gave The Orders;

and Name The Names of The Members of the
US Congress Who Either Gave The OK or Their
Passive Approval to what is now being Called
Torture After-the-Fact by many of those same
Members of the US Congress such as :

Pelosi & Reid & Biden + Et Al

Former us president GW Bush and former vp
Dick Cheney need to Stand-Up before the US
Congress On TV and Start Name Names. ~ RHF
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