"...Bush's statement shifts his role ...to being part of a conspracy to commit."

[deminks]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/04/14/BL2008041401428_pf.html

Bush OK'd Torture Meetings

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, April 14, 2008; 1:36 PM

President Bush says he was aware that his top aides met in the White House basement to micromanage the application of waterboarding and other widely-condemned interrogation techniques. And he says it was no big deal.

"I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved," Bush told ABC News' Martha Raddatz on Friday. "I don't know what's new about that; I'm not so sure what's so startling about that."

It's true that it has been widely assumed and occasionally reported that the CIA's use of brutal interrogation techniques could be traced back to the White House on a general level. But it was most definitely new last week when ABC News reported that a group of Bush's top aides, including Vice President Cheney, took part in meetings where they explicitly discussed and approved -- literally blow by blow -- tactics such as waterboarding. And while Bush has previously defended these tactics -- vaguely, and insisting against all evidence that they did not amount to torture -- he had not, until now, acknowledged that he personally OK'd them beforehand.

If you consider what the government did to be torture, which is a crime according to U.S. and international law, Bush's statement shifts his role from being an accessory after the fact to being part of a conspiracy to commit.

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Sorry if already posted. Emphasis mine.

Is this really why there is no coverage, because the media doesn't want to be part of the war crimes trial of a sitting (selected) president?

[islandmkl]

1. martha sure gets the a-hole answers, doesn't she?

these criminals couldn't care less what they say...they've already gotten away with the loot!!