RDT: Can we arrest them now?

Spencer Ackerman in Wired:

"A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleedonald rumsfeld, war crimesza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were ‘a felony war crime.’

What’s more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were ‘prohibited’ under U.S. law — ‘even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them.’

Zelikow argued that the Geneva conventions applied to al-Qaida — a position neither the Justice Department nor the White House shared at the time. That made waterboarding and the like a violation of the War Crimes statute and a ‘felony,’ Zelikow tells Danger Room. Asked explicitly if he believed the use of those interrogation techniques were a war crime, Zelikow replied, 'Yes.'"

source: Republican Dirty Tricks 

See  http://republicandirtytricks.com/bush-knew-waterboarding-was-a-war-crime-but-ordered-it-anyway/ 

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