Why would a Pentagon official admit torture just days before President Bush's reign of horror expires? It's a set up for pardons. Australia's TheAge reported:
It's hard to pardon without some form of legal dtermination. A confession from the Pentagon might lay the foundation. Bush's "Just Us" Department is sprinting to the finish.
Bush expected to pardon those with torture links
January 16, 2009
US Lawyers battling against torture and other abuses at Guantanamo Bay are braced for George Bush issuing last-minute pardons to protect those in his Administration most closely implicated.
The lawyers' warning came after a senior member of the Bush Administration, Susan Crawford, admitted for the first time that torture had been carried out.
It's hard to pardon without some form of legal dtermination. A confession from the Pentagon might lay the foundation. Bush's "Just Us" Department is sprinting to the finish.
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