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Graham got his battle testing in a military courtroom, first at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina and then as a chief prosecutor for the Air Force in Europe during the 1980s. He insists that Bush's proposal to tamper with the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions and put detainees on trial without letting them see all the evidence against them would have far-reaching consequences because it would invite future enemies to do the same, or worse, to Americans they capture. That argument has drawn strong support from such powerful voices as Colin Powell, former Chairman...
...Clarity," ironically, happens to be the verbal scrim the Administration has used to cover its agenda in pushing legislation on the treatment and judicial fate of terrorism suspects, which effectively rolls back key provisions of the Geneva Conventions. The President repeatedly insisted that the legislation is needed so that American officials interrogating suspected terrorists know what they can and cannot do, and, more darkly, that they know they won't be prosecuted for what they do. Of course, the competing measure sent forward by the Armed Services Committee Thursday night is also clear - maybe "don't torture" is a little...
...Bush's obsession with keeping the Washington hierarchy, well, clear, was on less subtle display with Gregory toward the end of the elegant anchor's question. He pressed his point that if the U.S. decided to revamp the Geneva Conventions for our own convenience, what would stop other countries - say, Iran or North Korea - from modifying them the same way? What if, Gregory asked, U.S. soldiers "were interrogated in accordance with our interpretation of the Geneva Conventions, and then they were put on trial and they were convicted based on secret evidence that they were not able...
...threat of prosecution comes not from some left-wing activists or even the House Democrats, but from the highest court in the country. In his concurring opinion in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case last summer, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the administration had to live within the Geneva Conventions. "Violations [of the Geneva Conventions] are considered 'war crimes,' punishable as federal offenses, when committed by or against United States nationals and military personnel," he wrote. And for emphasis, Kennedy pointed to paragraph 2441 of the U.S. code, which lays out the penalties for those violations, including life imprisonment...
...hard to see how the methods the Administration authorized for use against some of their detainees could not have violated the Geneva conventions. Common article 3 of the conventions prevents any "outrages on the personal dignity" of detainees. Among the highlights of the Administration's approved techniques: waterboarding, wherein a prisoner is made to believe he is drowning; intimidation using dogs; stripping of prisoners...