FBI: Bush said it was ok
FBI E-Mail Says Bush Authorized Abuse of Iraqi Detainees
An e-mail written by a senior FBI agent in Iraq in 2004 specifically stated that President George W. Bush had signed an Executive Order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.
The FBI e-mail–dated May 22, 2004–followed disclosures about abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison and sought guidance on whether FBI agents in Iraq were obligated to report the U.S. military’s harsh interrogation of inmates when that treatment violated FBI standards but fit within the guidelines of a presidential Executive Order.
The FBI e-mail was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The White House had emphatically denied that any such presidential Executive Order existed, calling the unnamed FBI official who wrote the e-mail “mistaken.”
The ACLU has called on Congress to demand that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate whether the President and other officials broke federal and international laws, “including the War Crimes Act, the federal Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws.” </em>
Oh lets see. The FBI and Congress have known since at least 2004 that the President committed war crimes (in addition to starting the wars in question, which were illegal to begin with), and have done nothing to investigate it, so pardon us in the real world if we don’t hold our breath waiting for the do nothings inside the Beltway to do dick.
Nope, as usual, Cheney has the straight scoop, directly from his mentor, Tricky Dick:
Cheney referenced Abraham Lincoln as an example of another president who “suspended the writ of habeus corpus” during a war, prompting this exchange:
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SCHIEFFER: But nobody thinks that was legal.
CHENEY: Well, no. It certainly was in the sense he wasn’t impeached. </em>
There ya go. The classic mentality of four year olds and sociopaths: If I don’t get caught and punished, then it wasn’t wrong.
