Stitt

It's hard, even in absurdist satire, to stay one step ahead of this crew. - John Cusack

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

And now back to your regularly scheduled impeachment

The CIA is holding terror suspects in secret prisons. This policy is the direct result of a "finding" signed and authorized by Dubya himself.
The agency set up prisons under its covert action authority. Under U.S. law, only the president can authorize a covert action, by signing a document called a presidential finding. Findings must not break U.S. law and are reviewed and approved by CIA, Justice Department and White House legal advisers.

Six days after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush signed a sweeping finding that gave the CIA broad authorization to disrupt terrorist activity, including permission to kill, capture and detain members of al Qaeda anywhere in the world.
The rules stipulate that findings must not violate US law. This one does, since it disregards the U.S. ban on assassination (wartime or not, CIA agents are not considered legal combatants), thus Bush himself broke the law. And we all know what happens when folks violate the law.

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