FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
By Bill Van Auken
23 May 2008
World Socialist

The most stunning revelation in a 370-page Justice US Department Inspector General’s report released this week was that agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had formally opened a “War Crimes” file, documenting torture they had witnessed at the Guantánamo Bay US prison camp, before being ordered by the administration to stop writing their reports.

The World Socialist Web Site, together with human rights groups and other opponents of US militarism and repression, has long insisted that the actions of the Bush administration—the launching of wars of aggression, assassinations, the abduction and detention of civilians without trial and, most repugnant of all, torture—constitute war crimes under any legitimate interpretation of longstanding international statutes and treaties.

To have this assessment confirmed, however, by the IG of the Justice Department, the only senior official there not answerable directly to the White House, and by agents of the FBI, an agency not known for its sensitivity to questions of democratic rights, is an indication of the rampant character of these crimes as well as the crisis they have engendered within the US government and America’s ruling elite as a whole.

The report makes it absolutely clear that torture was ordered and planned in detail at the highest levels of the government—including the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Justice Department. Attempts to stop it on legal or pragmatic grounds by individuals within the government were systematically suppressed, and evidence of this criminal activity covered up.


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Imagine That.

REALLY, WHO DID IT?

O.K. O.K. So, is anybody going to do anything about it? Or are we just all supposed to increase our blood pressure medicine one more time?

The house of representatives had one of their own on Bill Maher. She would only say that they were taking notes. This is really big, really big. This is going to take some time to go through. They had started to impeach Chenney but I havent heard anything else. It all got hushed up due to the seriousness of the situation. Breaking of Federal and International Laws, this is a new one for the history books.

Yeah, I'd keep checking your status...don't hold your breath.

The 'secret societies' which operated behind the scenes are at war with those who still honor their oath to country and constitution. These include military and intelligence. The other issue is, by hiring private contractors to do the work for the FBI/CIA/NSA, etc... they've deflected their guilt by claiming 'intelligence malfunctions'. Very clever move.

9/11 set the stage for massive breakdown and corruption in all of these depts. Incompetence rules. AND no one goes to jail.

I still believe that impeachment (or, at least, hearings for impeachment) would have possibly set the stage for justice to have been done in these situations.

At least, it might have brought them down to a legally prosecutable level, to a point where it may have freed some of the key players to truly testify on the nation's behalf, without condemning them to what may have been a probable death sentence.

There was such a sense, that, "Oh, it's not worth the money and the trouble it would cause..", but at least we would have known if justice COULD triumph, and our current system was worth fighting for.