Wednesday, 09 June 2004

High crimes. As of this week I'm officially partisan, so my objectivity is no longer beyond question — as opposed to last week, when I was totally free of bias — but the latest revalations from behind the Bush administration's curtain of secrecy, that administration officials explicitly sought to evade prosecution for torture (and asserted that the President has the power to disregard laws and treaties at will), are not leaving much room for doubt.

Taken together with the Bush administration's actions in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, these memos represent a conspiracy to violate Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113C of the U.S. Code. It's not a question of international law, or of whether torture can be justified: It's a question of whether the United States will enforce its own laws.

Phil Carter's Intel Dump has a must-read article on the DoD memo.

- Posted by Scott Forbes at 11:12 am. comments.