The 56-page memo to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cited the president’s “complete authority over the conduct of war,” overriding international treaties such as a global treaty banning torture, the Geneva Conventions and a U.S. federal law against torture.
“In order to respect the president’s inherent constitutional authority to manage a military campaign … (the prohibition against torture) must be construed as inapplicable to interrogations undertaken pursuant to his commander-in-chief authority,” stated the memo, obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.
[Source: Reuters]
So, now all that crap about international treaties, conventions and laws doesn’t apply to the United States because they get their orders from their President and well their President is simply untouchable and above any international law.
If this is not absurd, I don’t know what is!
