FBI files indict Bush, Cheney and Co. as war criminals
submitted 6 months 15 hours ago by: sandyenglish : 1 commentThe 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.
Full story on the World Socialist Web Site: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/fbi-m23.shtml
pdf of FBI document at end of this article:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/tort-m22.shtml
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