No. I know the contrary actually. I studies American Government. You were required to also in order to pass high school. Did you drop out or something?
Congress has a custodial position as to the military and its operations according to the Constitution:
According to this Article of the Constitution, the "port" or "outpost" called Gitmo does in fact fall under the jurisdiction of the Congress to enforce disciplinary action against via a tribunal they may elect to oversee proceedings.
Now, the retooling of the language per military tribunals was done by the urging of the Bush administration who did so under an atmosphere of duress created by lying to Congress in order to justify the very war it was using to justify modifying the language that originally prohibited torture in all forms.
So if we trace everything back to the original lie, the responsiblity lies with the Bush Administration. Declare the war illegal due to wilfull misrepresentation of facts, and all actions resulting from that war on behalf of the administration that lied in order to get permission to go to war from Congress...and you have a proscutable case my friend. In other words, Congress may choose to retroactively nullify any statues currently protecting your pals BigRob that arose as a result of the illegal coercion that led to a state of war.
Then the way will surely be paved for the World Court to step in. Congress has a duty to protect its military from any potential harm or abuse. Let's look at what some of the reservations the GOP itself had about the retooling to allow torture:
Their concerns are my concerns and the are mandated also to be the entirety of Congress's concerns. Wilfull misrepresentation to Congress to get justification to torture is illegal. And, moreover, it is de facto aggravating terrorism against our armed personelle and citizens by spurring the same type of circumvention of treaties in other nations who also, on a whim, and illegally, may decide that torturing or randomly attacking americans is the way to go...'to further their agendas''...just like Bushco did for Peak Oil.
Seems we're at loggerheads BigRob.
Hey, I know. Let's have a hearing to sort out if Bushco's torture was illegal or not. In other words, lets get to the bottom of whether or not Bushco lied to Congress to justify conditions of war in the first place.
That's how americans contest and try laws...they TRY THEM.
Glad to see that someone has the balls to babysit this on MSM. Good work Rachel Maddow. Stay with it and don't falter, no matter what the pressure.
