This is a 2 minute video clip of Jack Cafferty on CNN describing the bill that was passed in 2006. This bill has a provision that will PARDON President Bush and all the members of his administration of ANY possible crimes connected with the torture and mistreatment of detainees dated all the way BACK to September 11, 2001. This goes against the Geneva Convention war crimes!!! What on earth are OUR Congress and Senate thinking passing this piece of crapola!
Okay, I looked up this bill that was passed in Wikipedia.org. The bill is titiled The Military Commissions Act of 2006. I have read this before, however I completely missed this pardon section. So, I re-read this entire page and wallah, there it was under the criminal and civil prosecutions section. Nevertheless, if wiki had not sectioned it off the way they did I probably would have never caught on to this outrageous section of the bill that OUR govenment passed! the following is taken from wiki:
First, the MCA changed the definition of war crimes for which US government defendants can be prosecuted. Under the War Crimes Act of 1996, any violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions was considered a war crime and could be criminally prosecuted. Section 6 of the Military Commissions Act amended the War Crimes Act so that only actions specifically defined as "grave breaches" of Common Article 3 could be the basis for a prosecution, and it made that definition retroactive to November 26, 1997. The specific actions defined in section 6 of the Military Commissions Act include torture, cruel or inhumane treatment, murder, mutilation or maiming, intentionally causing serious bodily harm, rape, sexual assault or abuse, and the taking of hostages. According to Mariner of Human Rights Watch, the effect is "that perpetrators of several categories of what were war crimes at the time they were committed, can no longer be punished under U.S. law." The Center for Constitutional Rights adds:
The MCA’s restricted definitions arguably would exempt certain U.S. officials who have implemented or had command responsibility for coercive interrogation techniques from war crimes prosecutions.
This amendment is designed to protect U.S. government perpetrators of abuses during the "war on terror" from prosecution.
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