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Bush's War Crimes Cover-up
The Supreme Court ordered him to treat detainees as "civilized peoples" do. He refuses.
Nat Hentoff
Tuesday, December 5th 2006
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
As Andrew Cohen, the Washington Post's regular columnist on legal matters, concludes: "If a regular trial court proceeding were this shoddy, this unwilling to perform a truth-seeking function, this unable to achieve a fair process, the judge presiding over it would be impeached."
But no member of the Bush administration has been charged with war crimes under our law or the Geneva Conventions as a result of these hearings—or anything else since 2002, including the CIA's "renditions" of suspects to be tortured in other countries. Under the Military Commissions Act, the "renditions" can continue.
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