Bush Administration Secret Memos Approving Waterboarding Are Evidence of War Crimes...LINK

We may yet see international action against the Bush Criminal Administration Officials.
Disclosure of approval in the form of these secret memos is very similar to the evidence used against the Nazis after WWII in prosecution of war crimes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331.html?hpid=topnews

"CIA Tactics Endorsed In Secret Memos"
Waterboarding Got White House Nod

"The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency's use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects -- documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of the program became public.

The classified memos, which have not been previously disclosed, were requested by then-CIA Director George J. Tenet more than a year after the start of the secret interrogations, according to four administration and intelligence officials familiar with the documents. Although Justice Department lawyers, beginning in 2002, had signed off on the agency's interrogation methods, senior CIA officials were troubled that White House policymakers had never endorsed the program in writing.

The memos were the first -- and, for years, the only -- tangible expressions of the administration's consent for the CIA's use of harsh measures to extract information from captured al-Qaeda leaders, the sources said. As early as the spring of 2002, several White House officials, including then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Cheney, were given individual briefings by Tenet and his deputies, the officials said. Rice, in a statement to congressional investigators last month, confirmed the briefings and acknowledged that the CIA director had pressed the White House for "policy approval."

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and if givien the chance for absolute control, they probably would do more heinous things to American citizens as well as foreigners. These people are the very definition of sick...

It's all 4 year old information. Why is WAPO reporting it today?

... yet another feeble attempt to show they can be 'nonpartisan' in disclosing information damaging to the Bush ADministration.

by the CIA to defend itself against what they must be sure is coming, which is the Bush Administration's attempt to place the blame for torture on the CIA, and absolve itself from any responsibility...just like 9/11.

I'm sure that you are right --Bush/Cheney will feign they were misled and its the CIA's fault.

I'm still waiting for them to indict Rove.

with the Congressional Dems at this point. I think it's more the CIA getting their ducks lined up. Who was it that was interviewed and said it was very important for actions be taken on the illegalities of the Bush Administration? Oh yeah..it was Joe Biden.

nada.

As usual.

maybe one day 'we the people' might get involved in our government and actually demand that our elected officials act on behalf of 'we the people'. Like a democracy or something

maybe one day 'we the people' might get involved in our government and actually demand that our elected officials act on behalf of 'we the people'. Like a democracy or something

They have a mountain of wrongdoing to keep covered up before Bush leaves office.

We can hope that the Obama Campaign has already lined up an army of computer forensics experts to recover as much incriminating information as possible once Bush leaves for Texas.

that these fucks would be held accountable for something, ANYTHING. I pray this is that thing.