Please call your representatives in D.C. and let them know this is not acceptable. I’m not even sure it’s legal. Bush wants to change the law, and make it retroactive. So he’s admitted they have secret CIA prisons where they torture prisoners and now he wants amnesty from prosecution for war crimes. he’s trying to push this legislation through NOW, before the November elections…..to insure there will be no prosecutions. It’s time to stop the madness. Call your Senatorsand House Representatives.

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; Page A01

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.

Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean.

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