BUSH PUSHES FOR WAR CRIMES ACT CHANGES

But of course he does. He wants to eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees. Gee, wonder why..... If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It ain't broke. What's broke is the run amok administration, military and CIA.

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 9, 2006; Page A01

The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.

Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean.

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