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"Retroactive War Crimes Protection"
So hypothetically, if they had (which they didn't) done something horribly inhuman and grossly illegal, they would be retroactively immunized. Of course there's no reason to be suspicious. This is just a routine legislation which will never be used, so no reason to oppose it.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-War-Crimes.html?_r=1&oref=loginRetroactive War Crime Protection Proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policymakers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
So hypothetically, if they had (which they didn't) done something horribly inhuman and grossly illegal, they would be retroactively immunized. Of course there's no reason to be suspicious. This is just a routine legislation which will never be used, so no reason to oppose it.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-War-Crimes.html?_r=1&oref=loginTwo attorneys said that the draft is in the revision stage but that the administration seems intent on pushing forward the draft's major points in Congress after Labor Day. The two attorneys spoke on condition of anonymity because their sources did not authorize them to release the information.
''I think what this bill can do is in effect immunize past crimes. That's why it's so dangerous,'' said a third attorney, Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice.
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