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New York Times Has Found New Secret Torture Memos

Posted Oct 4th 2007 12:32PM by Cenk Uygur
Filed under: Young Turks, Alberto Gonzales, Video, Torture

The New York Times has found previously unrevealed torture memos written in the second term of George W. Bush. The men responsible are Dick Cheney and his new chief of staff, David Addington (after the last one, Scooter Libby, was arrested). The man who slavishly put into effect these atrocities was Alberto Gonzales. This pathetic man didn't even question his overlords as they got him to agree to one heinous act upon another.

Despite warnings that these interrogation tactics would result in our troops being tortured if they were ever caught, the White House pressed on. They absolutely insisted that the Justice Department write memos that said that obvious violations of the War Crimes Act be considered legal now. And they had their perfect yes-man in Gonzales who never objected and did what he was told.
And, of course, they kept all of this secret from Congress as well. If you're going to torture people, you wouldn't want to run it by Congress. Best to just run a shadow government with the permission of the Justice Department. If they really believed this was the best course of action for the country, shouldn't they have changed the laws to accommodate that idea? Didn't we used to be a country of laws where the executive branch couldn't unilaterally ignore federal laws, the Congress and the courts?

These people don't understand America. They have no idea what makes it great. Any tin pot dictator can ignore the law and authorize torture. What makes America great is that we are not ruled by men, but by laws.

The New York Times has the whole story here. We explain how all of this came about in the short video below. And as an added extra bonus, you're going to love Alberto Gonzales' only regret about going to the Justice Department, which we explain at the end:



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