[Osx-nutters] Bush Admin Drafts War Crimes Amendment To "Immunize Past Crimes" Of US Personnel...

[Kevin Callahan]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/10/bush-admin-drafts-war- 
cri_n_26954.html


The Bush administration has drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act  
that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal  
charges for authorizing humiliating and degrading treatment of  
detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.

The White House, without elaboration, said in a statement that the  
bill "will apply to any conduct by any U.S. personnel, whether  
committed before or after the law is enacted"...

..."I think what this bill can do is in effect immunize past crimes.  
That's why it's so dangerous," said a third attorney, Eugene Fidell,  
president of the National Institute of Military Justice.

Fidell said the initiative was "not just protection of political  
appointees but also CIA personnel who led interrogations."

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