And they can't NOT KNOW, readers.
PROOF of Bush Administration War Crimes!
So WHERE is the SCATHING EDITORIALS on TORTURE, Globe?
"Doing battle with due process" by Sabin Willett | June 23, 2008
Sabin Willett is a partner at Bingham McCutchen, which represents nine prisoners still held at Guantanamo Bay.
WHEN THE Supreme Court issued its recent Guantanamo ruling, hysteria overcame some administration supporters. "One of the worst decisions in the history of the country," declared Senator John McCain. Americans will "almost certainly" die as prisoners "return to the kill," wrote a furious Justice Antonin Scalia. A Wall Street Journal editor darkly warned that the Constitution is "not a suicide pact."
The extravagance of this rhetoric was puzzling. The ruling (Boumediene v. Bush) set no Guantanamo prisoners free. It held only that federal judges must consider the facts and decide, after six years, whether the prisoners really are enemy combatants or not....
We have learned some of the executive branch's rules over the last seven years. Among them: The executive may torture, spy on citizens without a warrant, and ignore acts of Congress as necessary. Down in Guantanamo, the administration may rubber stamp a man as an "enemy combatant" based on secret "intelligence" the prisoner never sees.
Those rules will no longer govern. Instead, federal judges will be governed by facts. On the facts, some Guantanamo prisoners may prove to be enemy combatants. Many certainly will not. But for the first time in seven years, Americans will have a process they can trust. They may just learn the truth. And for some, that is a very frightening prospect."
Like, these people?
"In addition to Bush, suspects in the alleged conspiracy include a who’s who of top officials in Bush’s first term, principally Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, John Ashcroft, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet and their aides, says ABC News."
