More Evidence That Bush Violated Law
Another day, more evidence that Bush violated the law:
As documented by the Congressional Research Service, the President is required to ensure "that the congressional intelligence committees are kept 'fully and currently informed' of U.S. intelligence activities, including any 'significant anticipated intelligence activity.'" The basis of this is the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act, which places a statutory obligation on the President to not just keep relevant committees "fully and currently informed" but to disclose "any significant anticipated intelligence activity."Compared to the actual acts of torture, this is not the biggest violation of the law Bush's Administration has committed. It is however a clear and obvious illegal act. Bush was suppose to keep Congress fully informed of intelligence activities and he did not. I do not know what the hell it is actually going to take to get prosecutions going regarding torture. After all, people were killed while being tortured and government officials even classified some deaths as "murder." I feel like I really am yelling at the moon over this. I can not be the only one demanding prosecutions, I don't care if they were Republican or Democrat. People committed War Crimes. They are still free and walking on our streets. What is it going to take....
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According to Office of Legal Council memos and other sources, it is clear that the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah began in August 2002.
The first time waterboarding was mentioned in a congressional briefing, it seems, comes on February 4, 2003 when Sens. Pat Roberts and John Rockefeller were told "in considerable detail" how EITs were deployed including "how the water board was used."


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