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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1. Dick Cheney — The worst Dick since Nixon. The man who shot his friend while in office. The “most powerful and controversial vice president.” Until he got the job, people used to actually think it was a bad thing that the vice presidency has historically been a do-nothing position. Asked by PBS’s Jim Lehrer about why people hate him, Cheney rejected the premise, saying, “I don’t buy that.” His top placement in our survey says otherwise.

2. Karl Rove — There wasn’t a scandal in the Bush administration that Rove didn’t have his fingerprints all over — see Plame, Iraq war deception, Gov. Don Siegelman, U.S. Attorney firings, missing e-mails, and more. As senior political adviser and later as deputy chief of staff, “The Architect” was responsible for politicizing nearly every agency of the federal government.

3. Alberto Gonzales — Fundamentally dishonest and woefully incompetent, Gonzales was involved in a series of scandals, first as White House counsel and then as Attorney General. Some of the most notable: pressuring a “feeble” and “barely articulate” Attorney General Ashcroft at his hospital bedside to sign off on Bush’s illegal wiretapping program; approving waterboarding and other torture techniques to be used against detainees; and leading the firing of U.S. Attorneys deemed not sufficiently loyal to Bush.

4. Donald Rumsfeld — After winning praise for leading the U.S. effort in ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan in 2001, the former Defense Secretary strongly advocated for the invasion of Iraq and then grossly misjudged and mishandled its aftermath. Rumsfeld is also responsible for authorizing the use of torture against terror detainees in U.S. custody; according to a bipartisan Senate report, Rumsfeld “conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees.”

5. Michael Brown — This former commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association was appointed by Bush to head FEMA in 2003. After Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane, Brownie promptly did a “heck of a job” bungling the government’s relief efforts, and was sent back to Washington a few days later. He was forced to resign shortly thereafter.
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43. George Deutsch — As a young, inexperienced press officer for NASA, Deutsch “told public affairs workers to limit reporters’ access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word ‘theory’ at every mention of the Big Bang.” He resigned in 2006 after it was discovered he had lied on his resume, falsely claiming that he had a journalism degree from Texas A&M.

It is a long list and many of them are candidates for prosecution. Check out the entire list at Think Progress: The 43 Who Helped Make Bush The Worst Ever.

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From the t r u t h o u t | Book Says White House Ordered Iraq-WMD Forgery reprint of the Politico.com story…

The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”

The letter’s existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”

The neither the claim nor the article are especially noteworthy except what they may reveal of the bigger picture. Fast on the heels of turncoat Scott McClellan, Suskin is helping to further expose the illegal, unconstitutional and immoral activities of the Bush administration. I think they are some of the first that will quickly become a flood of people trying to distance themselves and those that are no longer burdened by the tyranny of Chenney, Bush and their henchmen.

I, for one, am looking forward to the opening of the floodgates.

The coming flood will wash away that smirk.

Update

Looks like The Progress Report is beating the drum now, too. As to be expected, they are much more on point.

[Suskind] said that many of his sources “felt that at the end of this Bush era it is imperative to be truthful about this issue — going to war under false pretenses so that we settle accounts and people understand what occurred and what the truth is. So we can get past this as a country.”

The gates are definitely opening…

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