Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Mr. Bush's foul law and the cowed press
This shouldn't surprise me, and I'm sad to say it doesn't. You've all seen Brent's post on The Military Commissions Act, about how it allows the government to suspend habeus corpus for enemy combatants. What newspapers have never mentioned is that another part of this law states that Bush and his cabinet now have full immunity for any and all violations of the US War Crimes Act.
What annoys me is not just that such a law could even be passed in the United States but that I found out about it, not through the New York Times or another American newspaper, but from the Canadian Globe and Mail. I am not too surprised, Canadian reporters are safe from the wrath of Bush, both because they are outside the US and because Canadian law prohibits the incarceration of reporters for doing their job. American reporters, on the other hand, have been jailed for reporting things that the administration does not want to be known, supposedly because revealing these facts constitutes a breach of national security.
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They can write it into laws all they like but it seems to me if it ever came to a trial that law would just be ignored. Just imagine if Saddam had written that into Iraqi law...I imagine that his trial would still be going on.
It IS telling that the administration could think that they'd need that language in a law though.