You know they were all in on it because not one person was fired, asked to leave or resigned from their job when all this made the headlines. They all backed each other up. The cabal of torture enthusiasts.The Bush administration was given clear and unequivocal advice encouraging a detainee interrogation system that followed humane practices that adhered to US and international law, a previously secret memo reveals.
A detailed memorandum authored by a counselor to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2005 also reveals that the Bush Administration was offered a comprehensive alternative to its use of torture techniques. The author, Rice deputy Philip Zelikow (along with then-acting deputy secretary of defense Gordon England), asserted that the adoption of a clear and humane approach to interrogation would pay dividends for the US in the years to come.
Zelikow and England argued for a less ambiguous torture policy that would hold and must “pass muster for years to come under American law and relevant standards of international law.” They noted, almost shouting:
In all capital letters, they wrote: “WE ARE NOT SAYING THAT THESE DETAINEES ARE NECESSARILY ENTITLED TO THIS STATUS. TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE GIVING THEM A TEMPORARY STATUS THEY DO NOT DESERVE. BUT WE ARE NOT DOING THIS FOR THEM. WE ARE DOING IT FOR US.”As I've written before, the alarm bells were going off, the red flags waving, the reports were warning of the compromises the Bush Administration were making, the check and balances of government were there, any oversight could have stopped a lot this mess, but they just chose to ignore them all.
Bush, Cheney, Rove and Rice all knew they were shredding our Nation's laws, grasping at the nothingness they used to justify going to war. To somehow think they were going to torture the information out of someone to match the exact lies they made up is beyond belief. But it happened.
Source: Raw Story
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