White House torturers granted immunity

White House torturers granted immunity

White House torturers needed immunity, got it from fellow
Republicans McCain and Graham.

The government of the United States of America has tortured human beings.
President Bush has denied it over and over, but the evidence and the timing of a desperate
push through congress of a bill attempting to redefine the Geneva Convention just prior to the upcoming interviews of prisoners recently transferred to Guantanamo from various torture sites, says otherwise. This is a paragraph cut from the WaPo on 9/21/06. Notice how the final bargain between “dissident Republicans” and the White House was required to include congressional absolution of “past violations” meaning the White House feared lawsuits in US courts over their torture of human beings.

On the key issue of detainee treatment that had caused the impasse between the White House and the dissident Republicans, the two sides agreed on a list of specified crimes that could provoke prosecution of CIA interrogators and others. They also agreed that past violations of the Geneva Conventions, an international treaty barring degrading and humiliating treatment of detainees, would not result in criminal or civil legal action.

The very notion our government deliberately and with great forethought saw to the torture of human beings should be repugnant to every single one of us. The so-called dissident Republicans may have protected the Geneva Convention but they sold their souls in the process and granted protection to torturers when immediate investigations and indictments were the true remedy to end this horrific tragedy and demonstrate to the world the USA has not yet become a true outlaw nation.