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Future War Criminal Meetings UPDATE Meetings |
| According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: "Why are we talking about this in the White House?History will not judge this kindly."? Top advisors of the Bush Administration held dozens of meetings, top-secret meetings in the White House in what were called Principles Meetings.These meetings included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.? As the national security adviser, Rice chaired the meetings, which took place in the White House Situation Room and were typically attended by most of the principals or their deputies.? At these meetings, the principles discussed and approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects.? How many times have we all heard since Abu Ghraib came to light that this was just a few bad apples?Then the story was changed to, we need to protect the CIA agents that used harsh interrogation techniques from prosecution.Now, the truth be told, the change in the law was needed to protect the principles that approved these techniques.? They were illegal when they were signed off on, they are illegal today.And if congress would stop playing drama queen, and actually use the powers given to them in the constitution, the principles will become the war criminals they are.? And for those that think that Condi Rice would make a good VP candidate for John McCain, I'd love to hear her explain this: ? A year later, amidst the outcry over unrelated abuses of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the controversial 2002 legal memo, which gave formal legal authorization for the CIA interrogation program of the top al Qaeda suspects, leaked to the press.A new senior official in the Justice Department, Jack Goldsmith, withdrew the legal memo -- the Golden Shield -- that authorized the program.? But the CIA had captured a new al Qaeda suspect in Asia.Sources said CIA officials that summer returned to the Principals Committee for approval to continue using certain "enhanced interrogation techniques."? Then-National Security Advisor Rice, sources said, was decisive.Despite growing policy concerns -- shared by Powell -- that the program was harming the image of the United States abroad, sources say she did not back down, telling the CIA: "This is your baby.Go do it."? LINK 1 ? Peace, JUPDATE:Thanks Su for the video link: |
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