Secret CIA prisons not so secret
So Bushie came out and admitted what everyone already knew, but his group of official liars never conceded. It was the elephant in the room, the CIA had secret prisons. Where? Who knows. They're still not telling. I wonder why.
They have closed all these clandestine torture -- ooh, I mean -- interrogation centers, he said. And you know he wouldn't be hiding anything. "Mr Bush said he was making a limited disclosure of the CIA programme because interrogation of the men it held was now complete and because a US Supreme Court decision had stopped the use of military commissions for trials," says a BBC story on the subject. Damn judicial branch! Always getting in the way, even with the stacked court.
Life would be so much simpler if Bush were King -- he said so himself, in so many words, weeks before he took office in 2001, when he quipped, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." But he's not a dictator. At least not yet. Not until the next terror attack on U.S. soil, when he can declare martial law. Do I really think that will happen? Well, no. But I wouldn't put it past this arrogant bunch of political bullies to try it.
Anyway, Bush continues to act as if he were king, ignoring the law of the land, signing bills with his own little proviso back doors so he can ignore said bills, just as he ignores his generals, anyone with contrary opinions and 60% of the population of the country.
Bush said the CIA treated detainees humanely and did not use torture. Oh, but of course! They wouldn't do that! That's only for those barbarians at Abu Ghraib and Guantonimo. They did, however use an "alternative set of procedures." Uh huh. And the Clear Skies Initiative was all about stopping pollution -- not about letting polluters off the hook. This was a kind of "no prisoner left behind" program, it was.
The problem is, this administration and this president have been lying through their collective teeth since day one. And we're supposed to think they're coming clean now? Yeah, right. The abuses of this presidency are historic in their scope and number -- just read the meticulously researched Conyers Report, Constitution in Crisis, if you don't believe me.
There's another pink elephant in the room, and everyone knows it. And that is that this president and his cabinet should be impeached.
They have closed all these clandestine torture -- ooh, I mean -- interrogation centers, he said. And you know he wouldn't be hiding anything. "Mr Bush said he was making a limited disclosure of the CIA programme because interrogation of the men it held was now complete and because a US Supreme Court decision had stopped the use of military commissions for trials," says a BBC story on the subject. Damn judicial branch! Always getting in the way, even with the stacked court.
Life would be so much simpler if Bush were King -- he said so himself, in so many words, weeks before he took office in 2001, when he quipped, "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." But he's not a dictator. At least not yet. Not until the next terror attack on U.S. soil, when he can declare martial law. Do I really think that will happen? Well, no. But I wouldn't put it past this arrogant bunch of political bullies to try it.
Anyway, Bush continues to act as if he were king, ignoring the law of the land, signing bills with his own little proviso back doors so he can ignore said bills, just as he ignores his generals, anyone with contrary opinions and 60% of the population of the country.
Bush said the CIA treated detainees humanely and did not use torture. Oh, but of course! They wouldn't do that! That's only for those barbarians at Abu Ghraib and Guantonimo. They did, however use an "alternative set of procedures." Uh huh. And the Clear Skies Initiative was all about stopping pollution -- not about letting polluters off the hook. This was a kind of "no prisoner left behind" program, it was.
The problem is, this administration and this president have been lying through their collective teeth since day one. And we're supposed to think they're coming clean now? Yeah, right. The abuses of this presidency are historic in their scope and number -- just read the meticulously researched Conyers Report, Constitution in Crisis, if you don't believe me.
There's another pink elephant in the room, and everyone knows it. And that is that this president and his cabinet should be impeached.
posted by James Israel @ 7:50 PM
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