The Department of TORTURE

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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:41:52 -0500

The Department of TORTURE

 

 

 

 

> http://www.nocrony.com/no_conservative.htm (Supreme Court)

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> http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm (McCain Amendment)

 

 

 

 

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> ATROCITY THREATENS TO BECOME OFFICIAL U.S. FOREIGN POLICY

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> The Senate amendment to the new Defense Appropriations Act would

> explicitly prohibit the U.S. government from subjecting those in its

> custody to cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment.

It's pretty straightforward stuff. Yet despite a rousing 90-9 vote

for its passage, there are still dark forces at work trying to subvert

the intent of this measure, the language of which must survive the

conference committee in the House of Representatives.

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> If the morality perverters have their way, there will be a carve-out

to exempt the CIA from this prohibition. They are seeking this with

the express knowledge that sadists (acting under the color of CIA

authority) have been responsible for the horrific abuses which made

necessary further action and clarification of existing law. This

exemption would in fact turn the measure on its head to AUTHORIZE

torture by a particular agency, diametrically contrary to the

amendment's intent. They might as well appoint a " Torture Czar " and

make it a cabinet level position.

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> Actually, for all practical purposes we already have a torture czar

.. . . it's the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney. Yes,

it is Cheney himself who is PERSONALLY pressuring the conference

committee to rescind the McCain amendment in this way (just as he was

pressuring CIA analysts in the cooking of the justification for war

with Iraq). It has been Cheney himself who has taken a lead role from

the beginning, talking in 2002 about the need to revive the " dark

arts. " Since they could no longer keep the abuses at Guantanamo and

Abu Ghraib and elsewhere classified, they have prosecuted a couple of

selected patsies for these crimes, while their agency handlers right

up through the chain of command have continued in their unconscionable

ways.

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> This is not to let the president himself off the hook. In the first

place there is Bush's own overreaching lust for absolute dictatorial

power. Indeed, his longtime attorney and ally, Alberto Gonzales, put

his name on the infamous Jan 25, 2002 memo, referring to the Geneva

convention as " quaint. " But what many people do not realize is that

the heart of that reprehensible legal pretzel job was drafted by David

Addington, the staff attorney closely associated with Dick Cheney.

And would anybody like to guess Mr. Addington's current title in the

White House? That's right. He just replaced the indicted " Scooter "

Libby as Cheney's Chief of Staff.

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> There isn't a " talking head " out there not drinking their own

" talking points Kool-Aid " who believes the Fitzgerald investigation is

remotely close to being finished. If anything, the allegations in the

Libby indictment, which identify Cheney as the one who specifically

advised Libby that Valerie (Plame) Wilson worked under the covert wing

of the CIA, suggest that the Vice President is at least one of the big

game that the Special Counsel is still pursuing. The tight-lipped

Fifth Amendment-type reactions given by Cheney in the aftermath of the

indictment to explain his own role in the leak scandal do nothing to

dispel the intrigue.

 

> Instead the administration is circling the torture-advocate wagons

even tighter with the promotion of Addington, while the shadow of

Traitorgate continues to darken over their heads.

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> Especially now, with the chickens of treason coming home to roost in

the nest of the chicken hawks themselves, this is the last time in

history for the authors of torture as official American policy to be

allowed to push for largesse for even wider atrocities. We must all

immediately contact our senators and members of the House of

Representative who might have influence on the conference committee to

demand that the overwhelmingly approved language of the McCain

amendment remain intact in the final Defense Appropriations Bill.

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> ACTION FORM: http://www.nocrony.com/no_torture.htm (McCain Amendment)

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> We must also recognize that this is profoundly related to the

selection of a replacement for Harriet Miers as Supreme Court nominee.

Remember -- one of the talking points of the neocons (before they

turned on her for not being sufficiently and demonstrably loyal to

their causes) was that she would support the president's policies in

the deceptively dubbed " war on terror. " But the universal common

denominator of all Bush appointees is their submissive endorsement of

the unlimited expansion of the president's power to do whatever he

likes in defiance of Congress and even the people themselves.

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> In his own confirmation hearing Roberts refused to say (among other

> things) whether the Congress would have the power to stop a war if

the president ignored their authority. That case might come before

him, he argued, as if he knew something we didn't. And it most

certainly will if Bush is not stopped from making any more such

appointments. Roberts and his ilk will not legislate from the bench

(as if that were the boogie man to be feared). No, instead they will

UN-legislate from the bench, perhaps even to remove the McCain

language from American law by court order on the grounds that it would

interfere with the power of the president to play God. Remember also

that in his first day on the bench of the high court Roberts left the

sheep's clothing in his chambers to ask aggressively why they should

not overturn the TWICE-expressed will of the people in the Oregon

" Right to Die " case.

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> For all of these reasons we must demand that the next nominee to the

> Supreme Court be a true moderate and a true nonpartisan. One of the

truly beautiful things about Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is

that the American people can look at his work and agree that it will

be based entirely on the facts and the law. Even opposing attorneys

of those he has indicted must concede that he is unwavering in his

fairness and his integrity, favoring neither side by any inherent

bias. We can demand no less from the next justice to be appointed to

the Supreme Court.

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> ACTION FORM: http://www.nocrony.com/no_conservative.htm (Supreme Court)

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> If we all speak out, we can remove the Vice President from his

position as the torture czar. It's not as if he doesn't have enough

other black hats to wear; he's already serving in the capacity of

treason czar as it is.

> Sheriff Fitzgerald is working on that last one. The rest is up to

we the people.

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