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Countdown- Jonathan Turley and Bush Admin War Crimes (video)
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Firedoglake:  Cheney Confesses to a War Crime—What’s It to You?

The BRAD BLOG:  If Bush and Cheney Commit War Crimes and Everyone Knows It, But Does Nothing, Is It Still a Crime?

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Cheney Confesses to a War Crime—What’s It to You?
Firedoglake — Great segment on Countdown with Kieth Olbermann last night, talking with Jonathan Turley. They were discussing an interview in which Dick Cheney admitted some part of his role in authorizing the torture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. Olbermann's first question to Turely: Did Dick Cheney just confess to a war ...

If Bush and Cheney Commit War Crimes and Everyone Knows It, But Does Nothing, Is It Still a Crime?
The BRAD BLOG — As Jon Ponder noted here on Tuesday, a bi-partisan U.S. Senate panel has found [PDF] that George W. Bush was responsible for approving War Crimes (torture and abuse) at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Dick Cheney admitted in a recent interview to helping to approve War Crimes (torture and abuse) in interrogations, and the corporate media --- with the lone exception of MSNBC --- has been virtually as silent on what may be the most offensive crimes ever committed by an Executive Branch in the U.S. as they were during the lead-up and follow-through of the War on Iraq, when those same officials sent our nation into war on the basis of demonstrable lies. ...

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