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kate
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 Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: Bush Gets His Way |
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| Quote: | Bush Gets His Way
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, September 22, 2006
Pay no attention to the news stories suggesting that the White House caved in yesterday.
On the central issue of whether the CIA should continue using interrogation methods on suspected terrorists that many say constitute torture, the White House got its way, winning agreement from the "maverick" Republican senators who had refused to go along with an overt undoing of the Geneva Conventions.
The "compromise"? The Republican senators essentially agreed to look the other way.
Once again (see Monday's column ) there was so much disingenuousness flying through the airwaves that straight news reporting simply wasn't up to the task of conveying the real meaning of the day.
So let's go to the editorials and opinion columns.
The Washington Post editorial board writes: "Mr. Bush, as he made clear yesterday, intends to continue using the CIA to secretly detain and abuse certain terrorist suspects. He will do so by issuing his own interpretation of the Geneva Conventions in an executive order and by relying on questionable Justice Department opinions that authorize such practices as exposing prisoners to hypothermia and prolonged sleep deprivation. Under the compromise agreed to yesterday, Congress would recognize his authority to take these steps and prevent prisoners from appealing them to U.S. courts. The bill would also immunize CIA personnel from prosecution for all but the most serious abuses and protect those who in the past violated U.S. law against war crimes.
The New York Times editorial board writes: "The deal does next to nothing to stop the president from reinterpreting the Geneva Conventions. While the White House agreed to a list of 'grave breaches' of the conventions that could be prosecuted as war crimes, it stipulated that the president could decide on his own what actions might be a lesser breach of the Geneva Conventions and what interrogation techniques he considered permissible. It's not clear how much the public will ultimately learn about those decisions."
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antique media tantrum..
color McCain done...
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baldeagle
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| Quote: | | It's not clear how much the public will ultimately learn about those decisions." |
Contrary to the tenets of the NYT's, there are many things done in war that the "public" does not have the "Need to know".
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Doll
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| baldeagle wrote: | | Quote: | | It's not clear how much the public will ultimately learn about those decisions." |
Contrary to the tenets of the NYT's, there are many things done in war that the "public" does not have the "Need to know". |
Ditto baldeagle. It is time the media-NYT's in particular learn this very important point.
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