Nice lawyerly weasel answers from Bush today on Abu Ghraib. I told them to stay within the law, Bush now says. Of course, he fails to mention that according to his own Justice Dept, no US or international law applies to what he tells military investigators, so they can do anything they want and still "stay within the law" because there IS no applicable law, by their own analysis. Very crafty.
AP:
President Bush said Thursday he ordered U.S. officials to follow the law while interrogating suspected terrorists, but he sidestepped an opportunity to denounce the use of torture.
Bush's comments came as a 2-year-old State Department document surfaced warning the White House that failing to apply international standards against torture could put U.S. troops at risk.
'What I've authorized is that we stay within U.S. law,' Bush told reporters at the close of the G-8 summit in Savannah, Ga.
