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The world has every reason to so doubt. Indeed, there is no moral basis for the US position and the actions that have taken place on Bush's watch. Bush, like Hitler before him, has literally thumbed his nose at US international obligations though we are bound to them by our own US Constitution —the supreme law of the land —and US criminal codes.

I have, at last, located the Keith Olberman/Jonathan Turley video. Here is it is. Enjoy and learn how a man who claims to be our "President" has thumbed his nose at our own Constitution, our treaty obligations, indeed, the very values of a civilized society:

The media has done the American public a disservice, dealing with this story in Orwellian terms, calling torture "tough questioning" or "stringent interrogation techniques" or some other absurd euphemism. Bush, himself, calls it "an alternative set of procedures"! Hey! We're talking about torture, folks, and it's a crime! And when death results —as it has in fact —it's a capital crime prohibited by federal laws, punishable by death at the pleasure of the court. Moreover, it will take a constitutional amendment to undo those obligations and even that will not exonerate Bush after the fact.

Bush perpetrated a fraud upon the nation in order to wage of war of naked aggression, itself a war crime under the Nuremberg Principles. Then, in the course of waging that criminal war, Bush violates Geneva which he now pressures Congress to abjure. My position is: it is not Geneva that Congress should abjure —but Bush! Instead of papering over his crimes with what Bush hopes will exculpate his guilty butt, the Congress should be drafting his impeachment.
Prof. Jonathan Turley on Gutting of the Geneva Conventions
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An update:
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A law, however, cannot be denominated retrospective, or ex post facto, which merely changes the remedy, but does not affect the right.

—U.S. Supreme Court, HOLLINGSWORTH v. STATE OF VIRGINIA, 3 U.S. 378 (1798)


The Torture President

Additional resources:

* Republican rift over CIA program continues
* A defining moment for the United States
* U.S. wartime prisons have left 14,000 detainees in a legal vacuum
* Congress should block Bush torture proposal
* Why GOP trio is bucking the White House

I am pleased to have been picked up by a French language blog called Paroles de QuébécoisHere's a portion of the story they wrote about the ex post facto issue: