Coming Soon...WH To Publish "TORTURE ACTS" Under Geneva Convention

[kpete]

Battles brewing on torture, detainees
Bush signs, hails rules; foes vow legal challenge
By Farah Stockman and Charlie Savage, Globe Staff |
October 18, 2006


Page 2 of 2 --Snow had said this week that Bush would not need to issue a signing statement for this law because Congress ``did a really good job" in drafting it. He joked that the White House wanted to ``frustrate the media because everybody has been waiting for one."

In the coming weeks, Snow said, the White House will publish in the Federal Register a broad interpretation of what acts constitute torture under the Geneva Conventions.

When it comes to the government's prosecution of detainees, the law sets up a new system of military trials, after the Supreme Court struck down the old one in June. The justices ruled that the tribunals Bush authorized to try the detainees had not been approved by Congress.

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Critics of the new law, however, contend that it denies justice for detainees because it cuts off access to federal courts. The vast majority of the 450 detainees in Guantanamo, critics say, are not accused of terrorist acts and are unlikely to ever stand trial, and their only recourse had been to file petitions in federal court challenging their detentions.

more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/10/18/battles_brewing_on_torture_detainees/?page=2

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Time to tie this abomination up in the courts

I'm sure there will be numerous legal challenges.

[whistle]

2. Does pushing a thin glass tube into ones urethra and then shattering

...it with sound waves constitute torture Mr Snow? Any comments Mr Snow on the use of duct taped butt plugs to prevent defecation? Oh, I'm sure the methods of "water-boarding" will be explored and explained in detail. This list may actually become the basis for college courses on Effective Torture Methods to be taught in all Christian institutions of higher learning. How about SS degrees?

[moondust]

3. WTF?

The signatories to the Geneva Conventions know "what acts constitute torture under the Geneva Conventions" or they wouldn't have signed it. For whose private fantasy do these White House wastrels toil?

[OnionPatch]

4. When we get these Nazis out of office can we reverse this?

That would be the very first thing I would want our new Democratic president to do when he/she takes office in 2009.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yeah.. that part was called a "safe-guard" in the bill now law

It's in the bill now law about outlining "interpretations" made by Bush in the Federal Register. Some members of Congress, and Bush, said it would be a "safe-guard" and a "checks and balance", because Bush had to publish his interpretations of Common Article 3 and the "revised" War Crimes Act of 1996 ...calling it "transparency"

It was a crock of shit then and it's a crock of shit now.