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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:55 PM
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It's Official: The White House Committed WAR CRIMES!
Rice admitted, in writing, to the Senate, that the White House discussed using torture on detainees.

Included in the written admission are some of those who were in attendence in the discussions, including Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington.

We don't know yet if the discussions invovled the President or the Vice President.

Just announced on Rachel Maddow's show.

Well, one step closer to the truth. Rice has admitted it on paper. It's on the record. We all knew this, but it's official now.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:59 PM
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1. Is this Condi's revenge for being passed over for VP because she might have a GF?
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:16 PM
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5. She might have a gf?
Girlfriend?
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:22 PM
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8. Saw a tabloid story to that effect on here somewhere
Might have even been mainstream European press.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:23 PM
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9. Does Bush know?
He might be jealous.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:39 PM
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13. I was shocked my own self
I do believe in redemption and if Condi wants to help us end these fiends she has my thanks.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 08:59 PM
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2. Oh, sure, now that the economy's collapsing.
Can we hang Rice?
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:03 PM
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3. Can't hang the rat unfortunately
But I'll be the first to send her a house warming gift wherever WITPRO puts her if she helps us take the cartel down.
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:06 PM
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4. She should be tried for War Crimes at the International Court
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:17 PM
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6. I think hanging might have a bad connotation
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 01:40 AM
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15. Guillotine?
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:21 PM
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7. Why? And why now?
It seems she has lawyers backing her up for this.

What started this? It certainly wasn't a sudden attack of guilt. That should have happened YEARS ago.
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Darwins Doberman Donating Member (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:26 PM
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10. Wasn't Kissinger's advice sought with regards to foreign policy matters
I mean, if Kissinger is giving advice, chances are he's advocating some form of war crime.

As Hitchens so brilliantly put over 15 years ago, Kissinger's health is sustained by being hooked up to a Death Support Machine.
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:27 PM
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11. LA Times
Edited on Thu Sep-25-08 09:27 PM by chill_wind
Rice admits Bush officials held White House talks on CIA interrogations

(...)

Levin questioned the assurance Rice said she and other officials obtained that SERE methods were safe. Levin said that contradicted statements from SERE experts who have pointed out that soldiers, unlike prisoners, can order the treatment stopped.

Rice did not disclose who at the meetings, but said that she had "asked Atty. Gen. Ashcroft personally to review and confirm the legal advice" being prepared by the Department of Justice on the CIA's interrogation plans.

Other senior officials who routinely attended so-called principals meetings included then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; Alberto R. Gonzales, then the presidential counsel; and David S. Addington, the vice president's counsel.

The committee submitted similar questionnaires to other Bush administration officials. But Levin said that they declined or refused to respond. Robert Wood, a State Department spokesman, said the department would not comment on correspondence between Rice and members of Congress.


more:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-interrogate25-2008sep25,0,7213775.story
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 09:27 PM
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12. Here's the story
link
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-25-08 11:18 PM
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14. Thanks for the link.
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OakCliffDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 05:15 AM
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16. Kicked and Recommended
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Blarch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 06:09 AM
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17. Start the waterboarding.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-26-08 06:10 AM
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18. They all need to go to jail. All of them.
If Obama doesn't pursue it, it won't matter. The people will. We have to.
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