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Advice to Bush on How to Avoid War Crimes
If you know you are doing something or going to do something illegal, but don’t want to be caught, it is natural to try and cover your tracks. It appears that is exactly what Bush and his administration did in January and February of 2002 as they set up Guantanamo.
On the advice of then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, the Bush administration signed a memorandum that denied baseline protection for Al Queda and Taliban prisoners provided by the Third Geneva Convention in order to “substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act”.
Truthout has an informative article about this attempt to cover their asses…
t r u t h o u t | Gonzaless Advice to Bush on How to Avoid War Crimes.
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