“History Will Not Judge This Kindly”

By Scott Horton

Gripping news: ABC News reports that the senior most advisors of President Bush, led by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, met in the White House repeatedly to discuss and approve specific torture tactics, including waterboarding and physical assault, as applied to particular prisoners. Watch this report which resulted from a five month study by ABC News (and in connection with which I was interviewed):

Attorney General John Ashcroft, obviously disturbed as he and his cabinet colleagues discussed specific torture practices, stated that “History will not judge this kindly.” I don’t agree with John Ashcroft on much, but on this point he proves a master of understatement. The seniormost members of the Bush cabinet sat, plotted, advised and directed the implementation of war crimes. And that’s exactly how history will view it.

Kudos to Jan Crawford Greenburg, Howard L. Rosenberg and Ariane de Vogue for this powerful exposure of the utter depravity of the Bush Administration.