Bush wants prisoner abuse investigation

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=7358e34bce5f4eb6

Bush wants prisoner abuse investigation
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Big News Network.com Thursday 23rd December, 2004

The White House is calling for an investigation of allegations of widespread abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military, the Washington Post reports.

New documents released Tuesday reveal a series of U.S. Army investigations into multiple cases of threatened executions of Iraqi detainees by U.S. soldiers as well as of thefts of currency and private property, physical assaults, and deadly shootings of detainees at detention camps in Iraq.

In response, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said President Bush expects a full investigation and corrective actions to make sure that abuse does not occur again.

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Just like the 9/11 commission investigate but nobody is really responsible!!!

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Gag

Does anybody really think that anyone on the upper end of the food chain will get spanked for bad behavior? If they investigate, the enlisted folks will be the ones to suffer.

[old blue]

2. translation:

Bush wants the investigation done by *his* people.

[lovuian]

6. Bingo!!! Give me those Emails and we can destroy them

:crazy: I hope they are shipping those records to the World Court and Europe

[Kimber Scott]

3. Whatever... I thought they already did that once? Oh yeah - means zip.

:nuke:

[gnofg]

4. Like Oj Simpson

Look in the mirror and find the real killer

[skypilot]

5. OK. Just plop it down...

...next to the Valerie Plame investigation.

[lovuian]

8. Bingo another Investigation that went NOWHERE

:bounce:

[KansDem]

12. ...and the anthrax mailings investigation...

US anthrax scare: Why the silence on right-wing terrorism?
By Patrick Martin
27 October 2001

(excerpt)
The past two decades have seen the rise within the Republican Party of extreme-right and Christian fundamentalist elements, many of them linked to a fascist underground of racists, militia fanatics and anti-abortion activists. Individuals and groups sharing the political agenda of the ultra-right have been responsible for the vast majority of terrorist actions in the United States in recent years, including the bloodiest such attack in US history prior to September 11—the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by right-wing militia supporter Timothy McVeigh, which killed 168 people. Anti-abortion extremists have murdered doctors, bombed clinics and planted the bomb that killed one person at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

There is a history of rightist elements seeking to obtain anthrax for use as a weapon of terror. In 1998 a microbiologist with ties to white supremacist groups was arrested in Las Vegas on charges of unauthorized possession of an anthrax strain that turned out to be non-lethal. In 1999, in testimony before Congress, FBI Director Louis Freeh said that “a growing number, while still small, of ‘lone offender’ and extremist splinter elements of right-wing groups have been identified as possessing or attempting to develop or use” weapons of mass destruction.
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/oct2001/anth-o27.shtml

[Cooley Hurd]

15. What about the WMD review panel appointed earlier this year?

The one with Crazy Larry Silberman and Chuck Robb in it?

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/708/

Features > February 19, 2004
Faulty Intelligence
By Nat Parry

The commission appointed by President George W. Bush to look into WMD-related “intelligence failures” can be considered “independent” only if the word now means “subordinated and allied.” The members lack the expertise required to uncover what really went wrong, and their limited mandate sidesteps the central question: Did the administration hype intelligence reports to march the United States into war?

Rather than allowing Congress to name the members and determine the scope of their investigation, the intelligence commission was established by executive fiat and is a mixture of centrists and right-wing ideologues—suggesting that Bush is less concerned with unraveling the Iraq fiasco than deflecting criticism until after the November elections.

Co-chairmen are Laurence Silberman, a retired appeals court judge appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan, and Charles Robb, the moderate former governor and senator from Virginia. Other members are: John McCain, who called for the commission’s formation but advocated that it report back after November; Lloyd Cutler, legal counsel for two Democratic administrations; Richard Levin, president of Yale University, alma mater of the Bush clan; Patricia Wald, former chief judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals; and Adm. William Studeman, former deputy director of Central Intelligence and the only appointee with a solid knowledge of intelligence matters.
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That commission's been just gangbusters, hasn't it?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. does that mean Bush is going to resign

and turn himself in to the World Court for prosection for war crimes?

[RuleofLaw]

9. Of course he wants an investigation

That way, every time one in his administration is asked about it, they can say, that they cannot comment on it until the investigation is completed.

As they say in the commercial: Brilliant!


Reporter: Mr. President, Documents shows that you signed an order to torture prisoners in Guantanamo. Can you comment?

Bush: I have no comments on that issue until the official investigation is completed. It would not be prudent of me to comment on an ongoing investigation.

[Vidar]

10. You nailed it.

[lovuian]

13. I'll give you another investigation Enron it went nowhere

Ken lay is still walking around smiling!!!

[WhiteTara]

11. this reminds of when Herr Boobengroper was going to

investigate himself!  Then after a few days, he held a press
confernece and said that he found nothing wrong.  Good
precedent for *chimpy!

[lovuian]

14. What was the Investigation concerning Abu Ghahib

what was that all about??? Did something come about in that??? I thought there was video tapes???

[Malva Zebrina]

16. He is going to blame the troops again. nt

[peacebird]

18. abu ghraib was just a few rotten apples...

didn't you get the memo?

[dave123williams]

17. If * doesn't want this happening again, it's probably best for him to...

not authorize it again.

[VegasWolf]

19. LBN: bush torture panel finds bush innocent. n/t