President Carter: Many Children Were Tortured Under Bush

Ralph Lopez, Uruknet.info, July 17, 2009 “You have the power to hold your leaders accountable.” – President Obama, Ghana, July 14, 2009 While congress says it is gearing up to investigate what is old news, that CIA and Special Ops forces are killing Al Qaeda leaders, a decision of far different gravity is being contemplated by Attorney General Eric Holder. The new insistence of Congress on its oversight role, conspicuously absent throughout 8 years of Bush, is suddenly rearing its head in the form of questioning a policy which has been in place with no controversy for years. The U.S. has been hunting and killing Al Qaeda leaders outside of official war zones since 2004, when the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had signed an order authorizing Special Forces to kill Al Qaeda where they found them. Continued >>

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Tags: Abu Zubayda, Bush administration, CIA, Donald Rumsfeld, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Human Rights Watch, juveniles detained, kill Al Qaeda, Major General Anthony Taguba, President Jimmy Carter, President Obama, Special Ops forces