Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law
β Scribed by Holtzman, Elizabeth; Cooper, Cynthia
- Book ID
- 108121502
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 152 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780807003213
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
President George W. Bush and Vice President Cheney deceived Congress and the people to drive us into a war in Iraq; they claimed the right to wiretap illegally and to eavesdrop on citizens; and they authorized torture, unilaterally upending laws and violating international treaty obligations. Yet, both Bush and Cheney are audaciously unapologetic about their crimes. In his recent memoir, President Bush makes no apologies for his decision to start a war in Iraq, though no weapons of mass destruction, the ostensible reason for the war, were found there. Regarding his approval of the waterboarding form of torture, he proudly said, "Damn right."
Time and again throughout his term, President Bush proclaimed sternly "we do not torture." However, the 2009 release of secret torture documents revealed otherwise. The documents paint a bleak picture of the involvement of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and top administration officials in unleashing, sanctioning, and...
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