Wow.
Democracy Now! just interviewed the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights whom described what was in these memos and gave a truly scathing indictment of the Bush Administration.
Quote:
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about these memos?
MICHAEL RATNER: These memos are extraordinary for the Center for Constitutional Rights got the April memo, 2003, we were just -- popped our eyes out, because what it says is really something I have never expected to see. It says that the President and his Commander in Chief powers, is exempt from laws in the United States that prohibit torture, is exempt from the torture convention which the United States ratified and as Commander in Chief, he can basically take whatever action he wants to defend the United States. I call it the pinochet defense. I call it the Troy argument. You can sack a city, kill all of the men and sell everybody into slavery. You can do that. It turns on its head a thousand years of law and makes you think what was the annex attached to that document? The document had an annex of what the interrogation techniques were supposed to be. That's one of the issues that came up in the hearing with Ashcroft yesterday and that's what we want to see.
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http://www.democracynow.org/article..../06/09/1444252
They also played a video of Ashcroft's testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee where he is utterly lambasted for contempt of Congress.
