Bush turns his terror war on homeland
CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts
08/29/06
Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush is definitely a war criminal. The US Supreme Court also exposed Bush to war crime charges under both the US War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Geneva Conventions when the Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld against the Bush administration's military tribunals and inhumane treatment of detainees. ... To make his war crimes legal after the fact, Bush has instructed the Justice (sic) Department to draft changes to the War Crimes Act and to US treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions. ... Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice says that Bush's changes 'immunize past crimes.' Under the US Constitution and US legal tradition, retroactive law is impermissible. What do Americans think of their President's attempts to immunize himself, his government, CIA operatives, military personnel and civilian contractors from war crimes? Apparently, the self-righteous morally superior American 'Christian' public could care less...
https://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
by Paul Craig Roberts
08/29/06
Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush is definitely a war criminal. The US Supreme Court also exposed Bush to war crime charges under both the US War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Geneva Conventions when the Court ruled in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld against the Bush administration's military tribunals and inhumane treatment of detainees. ... To make his war crimes legal after the fact, Bush has instructed the Justice (sic) Department to draft changes to the War Crimes Act and to US treaty obligations under the Geneva Conventions. ... Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice says that Bush's changes 'immunize past crimes.' Under the US Constitution and US legal tradition, retroactive law is impermissible. What do Americans think of their President's attempts to immunize himself, his government, CIA operatives, military personnel and civilian contractors from war crimes? Apparently, the self-righteous morally superior American 'Christian' public could care less...
https://www.counterpunch.org/roberts08292006.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
rudkla - 30. Aug, 14:33
