The morally defective Bush Administration tortured people illegally and Condaleeza Rice was a major proponent and conduit of these policies. It is interesting how these people duck responsibility when the truth comes out. I was only following orders was disallowed as a defense during the Nuremburg Trials and if the Bush Administration were to be tried as war criminals, they would surely be convicted.
From the Think Progress web site:
Rice is attempting to hide her central role in approving torture, as the Senate Armed Services Committee report released last week highlighted. She gave verbal authorization to then-director of the CIA George Tenet to waterboard Abu Zubaydah in July 2002 -- one month before the Office of Legal Counsel gave the legal justification for such torture.
Rice's opinion that a presidential authorization -- "by definition" -- grants something legality is deeply disturbing. In fact, the United States -- and its president -- are bound by U.S. statute and international treaties that ban the use of cruel, humiliating, degrading treatment, the infliction of suffering, and the attempt to extract coerced confessions.
Memo to Rice: Bush may have been "the Decider," but he didn't have the authority to make an illegal act magically legal.
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This is article #2 in a series on Moral Intelligence.
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