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Posted by Pope Reverend I, BV on 5/2/2009, 1:07 pm
‘Abu Ghraib US prison guards were scapegoats for Bush’ lawyers claim
Times Online
May 2, 2009
Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently released CIA torture memos prove that they were scapegoats for the Bush Administration.
The photographs of prisoner abuse at the Baghdad jail in 2004 sparked worldwide outrage but the previous administration, from President Bush down, blamed the incident on a few low-ranking “bad apples” who were acting on their own.
The decision by President Obama to release the memos showed that the harsh interrogation tactics were approved and authorised at the highest levels of the White House.
Some of the guards who were convicted of abuse want to return to court and argue that the previous administration sanctioned the abuse but withheld its role from their trials.
Now that BushCo is no longer in office...
Their "scapegoats" are turning sour on them.
Question is...
-- How long before BushCo faces charges...
-- For the crimes they've committed...?
-PRev1- 
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