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.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.
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.
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