Bush changing his story on Prison abuse scandal"only set broad guidelines"

[papau]

http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39669 >

BUSH CHANGING HIS STORY ON PRISON ABUSE SCANDAL

President Bush has claimed that the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib was "disgraceful conduct by a few American troops,"<1> and had nothing to do with broader administration policy. But according to a March 2003 Pentagon memo, Bush administration lawyers issued legal justifications for torture, specifically claiming, "President Bush was not bound by either an international treaty prohibiting torture or by a federal anti-torture law."<2> The revelations have now forced the President to backtrack from his previous denials of culpability, with the White House yesterday admitting for the first time that Bush did, in fact, "set broad guidelines"<3> for interrogation in Iraq - a tacit admission that Bush himself "opened the door"<4> to the torture tactics in the first place.

Now, the U.S. Senate is demanding the full Pentagon memo from the Bush administration. But the President has refused, instead dispatching Attorney General John Ashcroft to tell "lawmakers he won't release or discuss"<5> the memo, even if he is cited for contempt of Congress. This is the same Ashcroft who "conveniently declassified"<6> internal Justice Department memos in an effort to slander 9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick. It is also the same Bush administration that leaked the classified name of a CIA officer<7> in an effort to intimidate a former ambassador who had debunked
their false WMD claims.<8>


Sources:

1. Presidential Speech, White House Website, 5/24/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39670.
2. "Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush", The New York Times, 6/08/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39671.
3. "Memo on Torture Draws Focus to Bush", The Washington Post, 6/09/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39672.
4. "The Roots of Torture", Newsweek, 5/24/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39673.
5. "U.S.'s Ashcroft Won't Release or Discuss Torture Memo (Update 2)", Bloomberg.com, 6/08/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39674.
6. "Mr. Ashcroft's Smear", The Washington Post, 4/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39675.
7. "Mission to Niger", townhall.com, 7/14/03, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39676.
8. "White House "warned over Iraq claim", BBC News, 7/09/03, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1338421&l=39677.

[Catfight]

1. Will Bush testify this time with Adolf Ashcroft so they keep their

stories straight. Guilty guilty guilty! I want Bush in that hood standing on a box with wires on his nads!

[jbfam4]

3. lol

You made my day...what a great picture that would be.

[Mikimouse]

5. You would probably have more luck attaching them to his socks...

they're probably easier to find!

[jbfam4]

2. These people think they are above the law

It is also the same AG who re-classified the testimony of S. Edmond's.

Grassley brought that up yesterday when talking to ASScrack

[aquart]

4. These jackasses won't make it to the convention, let alone November.

They're really messing up.

[w4rma]

6. Maybe they are just trying to stay out of prison, at this point? (nt)

[RC]

7. I can see a presidential election with no

candidates on the Republican side of the ballot. Dignity in the White House my ass. Only after the election.

[cliss]

8. It's stories like these that give me hope......

that there's still a little tiny bit of freedom left here in the US. There are enough people who care about what happens to those under our "care".

"Under every Bush there's dirt"

[donhakman]

9. Broad guidlines

here is the broad