Rice: When the president approves it, it is not illegal

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When Stanford University students recently asked former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about waterboarding and torture, her response was uncannily close to Richard Nixon’s infamous claim, “When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

Students toting a video camera approached Rice and asked her about a new Senate Intelligence Committee report which states that she gave the CIA its go-ahead for the use of waterboarding in July 2002.

Rice responded by saying, “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligations, legal obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

“I didn’t authorize anything,” Rice insisted. “I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency.”
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Source - http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/30/cent-uygur-condi-rice-pulls-a-nixon/

Guy who recorded the videos blog here - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/condi-rice-pulls-a-nixon_b_193379.html

And the video:


I think that's as close to an admission of guilt as we'll get. Can we just prosecute these war criminals already along with all the other people guilty of doing this in previous and the current Presidential administration? Is that how it is? So now the President can do anything?

What has happened to elected officials? I guess that Condi Rice has gotten so used to being a member of the CFR that she feels as if she is no longer accountable to the American and international public.
 
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Who is going to prosecute them? The democrats? Even though they knew it was going on and never said anything?

PS love the thread title, changing the words and condensing it to make it seem like such a stupid and bold statement, you should work in the media!
 
Teki187 said:
I think that's as close to an admission of guilt as we'll get. Can we just prosecute these war criminals already along with all the other people guilty of doing this in previous and the current Presidential administration? Is that how it is? So now the President can do anything?
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If only they would put them in front of the court and have them done for crimes against humanity. But then their arguement would be that they were doing it for the greater good of humanity:rolleyes:.

Seemed to be that when Bush was in charge...he was able to do anything and everything and not be held accountable.
 
People should get it through their heads that there are some things that all the people power in the world cannt change and this is one of them.

Dr Rice will not be prosecuted in a million years for decisions and discrepancies for her time as SoS or for the use and approval of waterboarding. That goes fo George W as well.

I do not condone it but I do accept that high level government decisions are often above the law. That hs ben the case since the dawn of politics.
 
Oh noes, it's Teki187! It must be a conspiracy!

If you look closely, you'll notice that one of her reptilian horns has attempted to manifest itself, but due to some weird electrical weather over Washington DC it appeared as half a clock. Also note, her legs seem to have become disjointed and somehow swapped positions, much like those lizards that do the same thing when danger approaches.

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Azagoth said:
Oh noes, it's Teki187! It must be a conspiracy!

If you look closely, you'll notice that one of her reptilian horns has attempted to manifest itself, but due to some weird electrical weather over Washington DC it appeared as half a clock. Also note, her legs seem to have become disjointed and somehow swapped positions, much like those lizards that do the same thing when danger approaches.
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Comical, but this isn't a CT, its been all over the international MSM news recently? :rolleyes:

Again for the record, i don't believe in the things magick does.

And that post makes the 2nd person on my ignore list, at least Tefal has a friend now.
 
Mulder said:
If the above isn't trolling then I don't know what is.
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I dunno teki is the guy who claims garlic is going to be come perspiration only sometime this year after the evil WHO bans it...

it's just hard to take anything he says seriously any more.
 
Tefal said:
I dunno teki is the guy who claims garlic is going to be come perspiration only sometime this year after the evil WHO bans it...

it's just hard to take anything he says seriously any more.
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Well he's exaggerating, but he's not far off. He's talking about Codex Alimentarius, which comes into force at the end of this year. I won't link you to any sites as you'd presumably label them CT nutters but have a read for yourself and see what you think. :)
 
I've found something I agree with you on teki!!! :) All of the senior bush officials involved (and Bush too) should be prosecuted over the sanctioning of torture. Rice's response shows just how deluded they have become. We should also look into prosecuting those british people who allowed/knew about and colluded with the americans on this - all the way up to tony blair if necessary. These are crimes against human rights and should not be tolerated.
 
bibalasvegas said:
I've found something I agree with you on teki!!! :) All of the senior bush officials involved (and Bush too) should be prosecuted over the sanctioning of torture. Rice's response shows just how deluded they have become. We should also look into prosecuting those british people who allowed/knew about and colluded with the americans on this - all the way up to tony blair if necessary. These are crimes against human rights and should not be tolerated.
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If you call waterboarding torture, what do you call passing electricity through an individuals testicles? Or pulling out nails?

Some terrorist who plotted to kill lots of civillians gets some water on him, got off lightly if you ask me.
 
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