"Bush administration lawyers contended last year that the president wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture and that government agents who might torture prisoners at his direction couldn't be prosecuted by the Justice Department."
has graphic descriptions of violence
Satanic ritual blamed for death of Italian teens 6/8/04 Rome "An Italian magistrate warned against the growing lure of Antichrist cults in Catholic Italy on Monday after the discovery of the bodies of two teenagers killed in a satanic sacrifice. Police announced at the weekend they had uncovered the bodies of 19-year-old Chiara Marino and 16-year-old Fabio Tollis, last seen in January 1998 leaving a pizzeria with other members of their heavy metal rock band "Beasts of Satan"....Italian media said witness statements showed Marino and Tollis died during a cocaine-fuelled ritual where Marino, a petite brunette, was killed under a full moon by knife plunged into her heart....The deaths have horrified Catholic Italy, home of Vatican City, with pages of newspapers given over to descriptions of the black candles and goats' skulls decorating Marino's bedroom and witness statements of sexual violence. What has fuelled the fear are suggestions the double sacrifice near the town of Busto Arsisio may not be isolated. "Four people have been arrested for the murder of the two teenagers, but the investigations are ongoing. We are looking at other levels of involvement," Pizzi said. One of those arrested in the double murder is already in prison for the murder of a former girlfriend. As many as 5000 people are thought to be members of satanic cults in Italy with 17- to 25-year-olds making up three quarters of them, officials say. "The phenomenon always existed in Catholic countries where the figure of Satan is prominent in teachings as the alter-ego of Christ," La Sapienza University professor Maria Matioti said....She said satanic cults tended to be found in northern Italy, where traditional family communities had been split up due to migration to find work, leaving some people demoralised and isolated. "In the south, people are more open," she said. Pizzi said investigators were looking into the possibility the "Beasts of Satan" band members were instructed by Satanists in their late 20s or early 30s. He said police were also reviewing two suspicious suicides in the area." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3571233&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
Pentagon Report Set Framework For Use of Torture
Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions,
Memo to Rumsfeld Argued
By JESS BRAVIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL Wall Street Journal June 7, 2004
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB108655737612529969,00.html
or http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/060804A.shtml
Bush administration lawyers contended last year that
the president wasn't bound by laws prohibiting torture
and that government agents who might torture prisoners
at his direction couldn't be prosecuted by the Justice
Department.
The advice was part of a classified report on
interrogation methods prepared for Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld after commanders at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba, complained in late 2002 that with conventional
methods they weren't getting enough information from
prisoners.
The report outlined U.S. laws and international
treaties forbidding torture, and why those restrictions
might be overcome by national-security considerations
or legal technicalities. In a March 6, 2003, draft of
the report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal,
passages were deleted as was an attachment listing
specific interrogation techniques and whether Mr.
Rumsfeld himself or other officials must grant
permission before they could be used. The complete
draft document was classified "secret" by Mr. Rumsfeld
and scheduled for declassification in 2013.
The draft report, which exceeds 100 pages, deals with a
range of legal issues related to interrogations,
offering definitions of the degree of pain or
psychological manipulation that could be considered
lawful. But at its core is an exceptional argument that
because nothing is more important than "obtaining
intelligence vital to the protection of untold
thousands of American citizens," normal strictures on
torture might not apply.
The president, despite domestic and international laws
constraining the use of torture, has the authority as
commander in chief to approve almost any physical or
psychological actions during interrogation, up to and
including torture, the report argued. Civilian or
military personnel accused of torture or other war
crimes have several potential defenses, including the
"necessity" of using such methods to extract
information to head off an attack, or "superior
orders," sometimes known as the Nuremberg defense:
namely that the accused was acting pursuant to an order
and, as the Nuremberg tribunal put it, no "moral choice
was in fact possible."
According to Bush administration officials, the report
was compiled by a working group appointed by the
Defense Department's general counsel, William J. Haynes
II. Air Force General Counsel Mary Walker headed the
group, which comprised top civilian and uniformed
lawyers from each military branch and consulted with
the Justice Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the
Defense Intelligence Agency and other intelligence
agencies. It isn't known if President Bush has ever
seen the report.
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