Larry Johnson Has A Question For Bush About His Speech Right Now...

[kpete]

A Pre-Speech Q About Bush's Detainee Announcements

CNN Breaking News sent me this announcement: "ABC News: President Bush to announce that detainees held at secret CIA prisons, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be transferred to the Department of Defense and granted protection under the Geneva Conventions."

One question: How can these detainees receive a fair defense when any and all of their confessions, to date, should not be used in a proper court of law because the confessions were obtained through various forms of torture?


http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/a_prespeech_q_a.html

[democrank]

1. Not to mention the ones

who were drowned or had their heads drilled.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Will that (confession via torture) matter in a military tribunal?

:shrug:

[zreosumgame]

3. ahem, let me assume my dumbaya-face...

well, you see, hem, hah, urr, duh, that was then, this is now, see? it's a differnt wurld now ya see? that was days ago (aide whispers in his earpiece) urr, hours (more whispers) minutes ago that is, so it's all differnt now. Next question!

[laststeamtrain]

4. Larry C. Johnson: Smart, squared away & plain spoken.

Seems to hate Bush. Go figure.

[autorank]

5. "Your honor, the defendants have a very high pain threshold."

"How do we know this, we tortured them for months before they confessed.
therefore proving the fact the confessions are valid. They tolerated pain
all that time without confessing. Therefore, torture didn't cause the
confessions. Any more questions."

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