There's your chain link to this post.
See if you can find the word TORTURE in any of these AmeriKan jewsmedia accounts of AMERICAN TORTURE, folks.
"Detainee-trial judge bars coerced evidence; Prosecutors could appeal in case of bin Laden driver" by Mike Melia, Associated Press | July 22, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The judge in the first American war crimes trial since World War II barred evidence yesterday that interrogators obtained from Osama bin Laden's driver, ruling he was subjected to "highly coercive" conditions in Afghanistan.
Prosecutors are considering whether to appeal the judge's ruling - a development that could halt the trial of Salim Hamdan that began yesterday after years of delays and legal setbacks.
More delays, etc, after SEVEN FUCKING YEARS?!
The judge, Navy Captain Keith Allred, said the prosecution cannot use a series of interrogations at the Bagram air base and Panshir, Afghanistan, because of the "highly coercive environments and conditions under which they were made."
Translation: Bush Administration War Crimes
Hamdan, a Yemeni, has been held at Guantanamo since May 2002. A challenge filed by his lawyers resulted in a 2006 Supreme Court ruling striking down the original rules for the military tribunals. Congress and President Bush responded with new rules.
"Mukasey urges more Guantanamo debate; Says Congress should set rules for detainees" by Carrie Johnson, Washington Post | July 22, 2008
WASHINGTON - Mukasey, a retired federal court judge, said Congress should weigh in to guard against judges imposing a patchwork of conflicting rules that could produce confusion, more court challenges, and even lengthier delays for prisoners who have been held for as long as seven years.
Under the plan that Mukasey talked about yesterday, the US government could hold prisoners indefinitely so long as the armed conflict with Al Qaeda persisted. "--MORE--"
Translation: WE CAN HOLD YOU FOREVER -- or until you die, which ever comes first!!!
And NOTHING about the fact that EVEN IF ACQUITTED, these patsies are NEVER GETTING OUT!!!
Never mind the fact that they are ALL INNOCENT!!!
9/11 was a CIA/Mossad INSIDE JOB, and the WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT, assholes!!!!!!
Here is your " Al-CIA-Duh!"
The "reporting" of those stories is so damn shitty, I had to GO TO the BLOGS!!!
Here's why TORTURE is NOT an ISSUE in AmeriKan politics, readers.
"Nancy Pelosi, How Do You Plead?
Nancy Pelosi was secretly briefed on torture many, many years ago, and yet did nothing to stop those unlawful programs. Indeed, she egged the torturers on.
As the Washington Post revealed:
Four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.Moreover, Pelosi was secretly tipped off about warrantless spying on Americans. As constitutional expert Jonathan Turley said:Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
"there is an obvious level of collusion here. We now know that Democratic leadership knew about the illegal surveillance program almost from its inception. Even when they were campaigning about fighting for civil liberties, they were aware of an unlawful surveillance program as well as a torture program. And ever since that came out, the Democrats have been silently trying to kill any effort to hold anyone accountable because that list could very well include some of their own members."Pelosi also hid from the 9/11 Commission and the American people the fact that the interrogations of 9/11 suspects were videotaped, and that the alleged "confessions" of those held at Gitmo were wholly unreliable. She could have stopped the whole farce cold -- but chose to go along with it.
Even covering up a crime committed by someone else is itself a crime:
"Whoever, knowing that an offense has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact; one who knowing a felony to have been committed by another, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the felon in order to hinder the felon's apprehension, trial, or punishment."Without question, Pelosi has covered up crimes committed by Bush, Cheney and the White House gang.
Moreover, Pelosi is guilty of criminal conspiracy. She conspired with the Neocons to implement torture, spying and the use of tainted and unreliable evidence regarding 9/11.
She is also guilty of violating the War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, which makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment. The statute applies not only to those who carry out the acts, but also to those who order it, know about it, or fail to take steps to stop it. The statute applies to everyone, no matter how high and mighty. See this.
It is time for Pelosi to make her choice. Accept responsibility and show remorse, and she may be sentenced to community service. Otherwise, she will be tried along with Bush, Cheney and crew as a criminal.
Specifically, unless Pelosi immediately green-lights the impeachment, removal and criminal prosecution of Bush and Cheney, she must herself be indicted as a war criminal and criminal co-conspirator.
Nancy Pelosi, how do you plead?
Unfortunately, Pelosi is not alone. Harman, Rockefeller and others in Congress are also war criminals, accessories after the fact, and co-conspirators. "
Also see: Nancy Pelosi: Criminal
I say IMPEACH the WHOLE LOT of 'em, and if that fails, TAR, FEATHERS, SWINGING, 'kay?!
Also read: We Don't Know How Close to Victory We Are
And FOR the RECORD (which leads to the next post above):
"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."
That means they are WAR CRIMINALS!!!!
