Timeline on terror prisoners' treatment

[Judi Lynn]

Timeline on terror prisoners' treatment
By The Associated Press | January 6, 2005

Developments and Bush administration memos concerning the treatment of prisoners in the fight against terrorism:

--Jan. 9, 2002: Justice Department lawyer John Yoo and special counsel Robert J. Delahunty advise the Pentagon that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al-Qaida.

--Jan. 16: The first suspected al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners arrive at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

--Jan. 22: Then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee writes to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales arguing that the conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al-Qaida because one is a failed state and the other is an outlawed terrorist network. European Union officials and human rights groups criticize the treatment of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

--Jan. 25: Gonzales writes a memo to President Bush arguing that the terrorism fight "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions," such as requiring that prisoners get advances on their salaries. At an appearance in Cincinnati, Vice President Dick Cheney says the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners "is probably better than they deserve."

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/06/timeline_on_terror_prisoners_treatment/

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Bybee,associate counsel
to Pres. George Bush, #41.
http://magazine.unlv.edu/Issues/Fall99/action.html

[NYC]

1. Quaint.

Definition:

1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

2. very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"

3. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"


http://www.hyperdictionary.com/search.aspx?define=quaint

[Solly Mack]

2. he'll be confirmed

and everyone who votes to confirm him will be guilty of supporting torture....will be guilty of supporting war crimes.

and there's no rationalizing that away.

[Brundle_Fly]

3. and if they vote against him

the repukes call it "racism"

[Solly Mack]

4. That doesn't change their duty to do the right thing

them getting called names is nothing compared to them supporting torture

[UpInArms]

5. Gonzales also said that *Co didn't have to have Congressional approval

to invade Iraq

http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/3938859.htm?1c

Posted on Mon, Aug. 26, 2002

Bush's lawyers OK plan to attack

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for President Bush have concluded that he can launch an attack on Iraq without new approval from Congress, in part because they say that permission remains in force from the 1991 resolution giving Bush's father authority to wage war in the Persian Gulf, according to administration officials.

At the same time, some administration officials are arguing internally that the president should seek lawmakers' backing anyway to build public support and to avoid souring congressional relations. If Bush took that course, he would still probably assert that congressional consent is not legally necessary, the officials said.

<snip>

"We don't want to be in the legal position of asking Congress to authorize the use of force when the president already has that full authority," said a senior administration official involved in setting the strategy. "We don't want, in getting a resolution, to have conceded that one was constitutionally necessary."

<snip>

White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales had his deputy, Timothy Flanagan, develop the administration's legal position on questions surrounding a war with Iraq.

...more...

This sack of shit has been undermining our Constitution for a very long time.

:argh:

[0007]

6. And they have the gall to talk about tort reform and trial lawyers!

[Disturbed]

7. Gonzales is a spineless, yes man.

He has no regard for human rights or human beings, much less the Constitution. Any in Congress that vote for him do not deserve to be members of Congress.

[0007]

8. I absolutely agree with ya.

[UpInArms]

9. the slime belongs in a prison cell for treason

against the US

undermining the Constitution should carry grave consequences.

[0007]

10. These big wigs are writings letters and waiting for answers

on issues that concern life and death? I thought the horse and buggy days were over!