Evidence Leans Toward Bush/Cheney Torture Conspiracy

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Evidence Leans Toward Bush/Cheney Torture Conspiracy
by Patriot Daily News Clearinghouse
Mon Jun 01, 2009 at 07:19:42 PM PDT



When government officials agree to torture prisoners, issue sham legal opinions to "authorize" the torture contrary to law and then enact laws designed to prevent prosecution, the law calls that conspiracy. Evidence that started as a sporadic trickle and is now flowing steadily indicates that former administration officials, including President Bush and Vice President Cheney, conspired to commit torture.

Rep. John Olver (D-MA) has recognized the possibility that our "President, Vice President and other top officials conspired to create a policy" to sanction torture.

A 2008 executive summary of a Senate Armed Services Committee inquiry determined that senior officials sanctioned torture by "redefin(ing) the law to create the appearance" that Bush’s torture program was legal.

The engine of that conspiracy is the War Council of lawyers for Bush and Cheney...

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...The U.S. anti-torture statute criminalizes torture and torture conspiracy. We can thank Bush (pdf file) for adding torture conspiracy as a crime in 2001.

Any torture conspiracy charge would be directed against persons who had agreed to torture prisoners and then implemented the means to accomplish that objective, such as issuing the OLC torture memos:

To prove the crime, the prosecutor must show that: (1) two or more persons agreed to commit or cause the commission of acts of torture, under color of law, upon persons who were in the conspirators' custody and control; and (2) the defendant knowingly joined the illegal agreement at any time. But here's the most important point: This type of conspiracy continues, as a legal matter, as long as its members are still trying to accomplish its objectives - regardless of when they committed their last overt act.

Thus, the statute of limitations clock starts to run only when Bush and Cheney have stopped trying to maintain their torture program. Technically, that day has not yet arrived because Cheney is still campaigning to persuade America and Obama to continue torture...

MUCH MORE AT:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/1/737795/-Evidence-Leans-Toward-Bush-Cheney-Torture-Conspiracy

[aquart]

1. Yuh think?

[lovuian]

2. evidentally the Powers to Be are not happy with the

failures of these people

lts not forget Congress they voted for some of this crap

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. also Congress should have pursued Bush and cheney

instead it will come and bite them