Torture Non-Accountability: Obama and Congress Choose to Leave U.S. Constitution in Bush’s Wastebask

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Torture Non-Accountability: Obama and Congress Choose to Leave U.S. Constitution in Bush’s Wastebasket, Intro. Part 1

http://www.correntewire.com/torture_non_accountability_obama_and_congress_choose_leave_us_constitution_bush%E2%80%99s_wastebasket_intro_

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Sun, 07/11/2010 - 5:37am — libbyliberal

I am going to share some quotes from a book I just began reading entitled Getting Away with Torture by Christopher Pyle. It was published in 2009. Pyle teaches constitutional law and civil liberties at Mount Holyoke College. In 1970 as a former captain in army intelligence he helped Senators Sam Ervin and Frank Church with evidence to support constitutional protections of citizens and rein in Intelligence breaches of law.

I will do a series of these blogs as I make my way through this enlightening and horrifying book. The U.S. has participated in war criminality and human rights atrocities at certain periods during its life. The torture issue looms for us as citizens today. If it is not dealt with, if our citizenry and leadership do not restore the rule of humane law and prosecute those who engineered the torture atrocities committed during the Bush regime and those still being carried out by the Obama regime, which regime continues to use state secrecy and executive privilege to avoid its own future accountability, then our democracy is truly dead. We are a rogue nation without respect for law, honor, and the sanctity of human life.

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