What will it take to get justice served in this country? Vetoing SCHIP was just heartless, not impeachable. Violating laws on torture doesn't seem to be doing much besides making a few headlines. What if we caught him illegally torturing children? Would Congress just shake its head and go back to their own business? Seriously what will it take, because this down below is just an official stamp on old news.
From The New York Times:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.
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