Yostivanich

Quick post, for some­thing really good that hap­pened today. Pres­i­dent Bush today sent those peo­ple who had been held in pre­vi­ously clas­si­fied undis­closed loca­tions oper­ated by the CIA into the military’s hands and will receive the full pro­tec­tion of the Geneva Con­ven­tion. This is won­der­ful news as the CIA has not been required to meet the same guide­lines as the mil­i­tary inte­gra­tors are required to meet and there have been reports that the detainees had been sub­ject to what is best described as bor­der­line tor­ture. In other words tor­ture depend­ing on who is talk­ing about it and what your def­i­n­i­tion of it is, specif­i­cally water­board­ing or sim­u­lat­ing that some­one is drown­ing. How­ever Pres­i­dent Bush also wishes to have leg­is­la­tion approved that would place the new POW’s back into the hands of the CIA and allow for secret tri­als where the rules of evi­dence are far more lax as to what can and can’t be intro­duced than would be accept­able any­where else in the mod­ern world expect for places such as China and some of the old Soviet Bloc coun­tries that have not updated their judi­cial codes. A full post will be posted in sev­eral hours, though not cov­er­ing this topic.