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White House Balks At Disclosing POW Evidence To Judiciary
Congres and the public need the compelte information related to POW abuse and Geneva violations.
However, the White House will only release the POW information, in secret, to the Intelligence Committee. This doesn't address whether the information is highly redacted.
It's troubling the White House is providing only select Members of Congress some infomration, as they did with the FISA briefings.
These are serious war crimes issues:
"[I]t is not yet clear whether the White House will turn over the complete and unredacted opinions of the government lawyers that claimed the <b>president could ignore the law and the Geneva Conventions</b>.
Nuremberg reminds us nobody ignore Geneva and credibly believe they'll be immune from prosecution:
"Even if the documents are not censored, the Bush administration has agreed to <b>give them only to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees</b>. It is <b>withholding them from the Senate Judiciary</b> Committee. . . "
The White House agreed to stonewall, much like the Vice President's staff counsel in re Yoo and Addington testimony. I suppose the Members of Congress will later claim they didn't realize what they were agreeing to, or that they weren't told, but agreed not to consult Congressional counsel.
So much for that 2006 Mandate for Change in Congress. If Senators Obama, Clinton, and McCain really change while they are Senators, we might believe they'll change as President.
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