Whats preventing him and other people in the Bush Administration from being held accountable, legally?
Well, the evidence right now reminds me of the story of The Emperor’s New Clothes. The emperor is nude, but he thinks that he has on the most beautiful suit in the world. I think that the rest of the world knows very well that the highest levels of our administration have authorized a major departure from the Geneva Conventions, which is a war crime itself, and have authorized cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and torture, which are war crimes as well. We all know that. The series of memos that have come out, written by Alberto Gonzales, the President’s counsel, who amazingly is about to become the Attorney General of the United States, written by him as well as acceded to by him, also had definitions of torture that essentially authorized torture, and says that the President, in the name of national security, could carry out torture. There’s memo after memo coming out of the Justice Department. There’s memos handwritten by Rumsfeld. There’s memos where he says that you can use do
