Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture

[babsbunny]

By Stephen C. Webster
Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:53 EDT

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/16/nonpartisan-review-concludes-bush-knowingly-ordered-torture/

A nonpartisan group led by a former top Bush administration official concluded a two-year review on Tuesday that finds the former president and his top advisers knowingly ordered interrogation techniques that U.S. officials have previously referred to as torture.

“After conducting our own two-year investigation, weighing the credibility of all sources and studying the current public record, we have come to the regrettable, but unavoidable, conclusion that the United States did indeed engage in conduct that is clearly torture,” former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR), who served as undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration, said in an advisory.

[spanone]

1. of course he did. now what? i suspect nothing.

[Solly Mack]

2. Yep.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Bush knowingly ordered torture. Obama knowingly gave de facto immunity. And water is wet.

[haikugal]

4. We must look forward...

cue photo of the four 'amigo's' in the oval office where Carter is off to the side, by himself. Yeah...we must look forward!

[winter is coming]

5. Was there truly ever any doubt? n/t

[indepat]

6. After having launched a pre-emptive war of aggression, it is nonetheless shocking to learn that

junior and his top officials knowingly ordered torture. Who woulda' ever thunk it?

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. Here's the report, a long one:

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/684407/constitution-project-report-on-detainee-treatment.pdf

Finding #16

For detainee hunger strikers, DOD operating procedures called for practices and actions by medical professionals that were contrary to established medical and professional ethical standards, including improper coercive involuntary feedings early in the course of hunger strikes that, when resisted, were accomplished by physically forced nasogastric tube feedings of detainees who were completely restrained.

Recommendations
(1) Forced feeding of detainees is a form of abuse and must end.
(2) The United States should adopt standards of care, policies and procedures regarding detainees engaged in hunger strikes that are in keeping with established medical professional ethical and care standards set forth as guidelines for the management of
hunger strikers in the 1991 World Medical Association Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes (revised 1992 and 2006), including affirmation that force-feeding is prohibited.

[HereSince1628]

8. not problem...they are protected by Yoo woo

as is Obama