Bush admits CIA secret prisons
Bush admits CIA secret prisons
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
Bush said 14 suspects - including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and architects of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania - had been turned over to the Defense Department and moved to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for trial.
"This program has been, and remains, one of the most vital tools in our war against the terrorists," Bush said.
"Were it not for this program, our intelligence community believes that al-Qaida and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland."
It's a disgrace to the Presidency and a slap in the face to Congress the way the Bush Regime has played this as being hard on terror when the real terro is what they are doingto our country. Bush would have us think that in order to have a fair trial of these people we will need a secret "military tribunal" that is not fully bound by the Geneva Conventions and which offers fewer rights to those captured in times of war.
"He finally acknowledged the elephant in the room that everybody had always been talking about," said Jumana Musa, advocacy director for Amnesty International USA.
"I think what surprised me is he seemed to be asking Congress to legalize it through statutes, essentially allowing him to continue to detain people in secret by sort of putting forth all this information that they got from these folks and somehow using that to justify what has been recognized by U.N. committees as an unlawful act and contrary to our treaty obligations."
Bush has thrown this on Congress to act to cover up his regime. I think we should impeach George Bush now!
WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas and said tough interrogation forced terrorist leaders to reveal plots to attack the United States and its allies.
Bush said 14 suspects - including the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and architects of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania - had been turned over to the Defense Department and moved to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for trial.
"This program has been, and remains, one of the most vital tools in our war against the terrorists," Bush said.
"Were it not for this program, our intelligence community believes that al-Qaida and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland."
It's a disgrace to the Presidency and a slap in the face to Congress the way the Bush Regime has played this as being hard on terror when the real terro is what they are doingto our country. Bush would have us think that in order to have a fair trial of these people we will need a secret "military tribunal" that is not fully bound by the Geneva Conventions and which offers fewer rights to those captured in times of war.
"He finally acknowledged the elephant in the room that everybody had always been talking about," said Jumana Musa, advocacy director for Amnesty International USA.
"I think what surprised me is he seemed to be asking Congress to legalize it through statutes, essentially allowing him to continue to detain people in secret by sort of putting forth all this information that they got from these folks and somehow using that to justify what has been recognized by U.N. committees as an unlawful act and contrary to our treaty obligations."
Bush has thrown this on Congress to act to cover up his regime. I think we should impeach George Bush now!
posted by Alfred at 1:57 PM
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At last, a sane American!
Thanks for this site.
Not being an American citizen, I can't help you impeach the fucker, but over here in England, we're doing our best to pull Blair out of George's arse.
Today we got the great news that Blair will resign within a year.
Good luck with Bush!
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