BUSHCO: In Response To ACLU/FOIA-The Only Thing They Admit To Are "The Most Serious War Crimes"

[kpete]

It's Come to This
http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/052708/052708_Special_Review.pdf
(great read if you like redactions)

Marty Lederman

In response to an ACLU FOIA request for the CIA Inspector General report on interrogation techniques, virtually the only thing the Bush Administration is willing to disclose to the public is that we waterboarded certain detainees. Everything else is redacted. Do they not appreciate how chilling and absurd this is -- that the only thing they're willing to acknowledge is that they committed the most serious war crimes?

Quite the legacy.

http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-come-to-this.html

...............

The Waterboard

One of the very few things they've left unredacted (in all these heavily redacted documents) are the references to water-boarding. But they don't use it as a verb, "to water-board." Rather, they almost always refer to it as "the waterboard."

........................

The Timing

The ACLU refers to this as a "draft document," though there is nothing on what is visible on the cover page to suggest this wasn't a final draft--so we can't be sure whether the date on the report is the date when it was finally released.

Still, I find the date worthy of note: May 7, 2004.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/05/30/the-waterboard/

[Th1onein]

1. Their stupidity is amazing, sometimes, isn't it?

I think that America MUST try them for war crimes, in order to redeem ourselves.

You know, I'm from Texas, and when you look back on the things that Bush did in Texas, particularly streamlining the process of getting death row prisoners to the gurney, it is very difficult not to think that he is really just absolutely evil.