Next Revolution: The Second American Revolution

The ABC report above, of April 7, 08, indicates that CIA directors Tenet and Goss insisted that every act of torture applied by a CIA torturer in the field be approved by the highest levels of authority in the White House. This means that the administration generated documents, at the insistence of the CIA, signed by high cabinet and White House officials authorizing the real-time use of specific acts of torture during individual torture sessions.
 
When that information is correlated with the earlier ABC story of December 12, 07, which interviewed an ex-CIA agent who was present at the CIA torture of Abu Zubaydah, the two stories clearly demonstrate that there was a direct link between the CIA torture chambers in the field and the White House Situation Room.
 
The CIA agent interviewed in the earlier ABC story, John Kiriakou, not only admitted to ABC that he had observed the specific tortures applied to Abu Zubaydah, but insisted that his participation in the torture operation in the field was not just authorized by top CIA leadership, but that his operation was being directed from Langley through direct communication with the top leadership of the CIA, the deputy director for operations, at headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
 
The earlier article established two critical facts: First, that the CIA applied an escalating scale of tortures to a secretly captured victim in a secret prison, and second, that the CIA torturers were in direct contact with CIA headquarters in Langely, Virginia, and received real-time authorization for each of the tortures their victim was subjected to.
 
The later ABC report shows Tenet bringing these specific torture requests from the field directly into the White House Situation room, where they were discussed and approved by the most powerful leaders of the Executive Branch, the principals of the National Security Council.
 
Taken together, these two ABC reports show that the torture chambers in the field were in direct communication with the highest levels of authority in the White House. These two reports demonstrate that the White House did not just authorize the policy of torture, but directly and actively participated in the the real-time use of specific methods and escalations of torture during torture sessions.
 
The combined content of the two ABC articles draws a direct chain of culpability from the torturer in the field to the highest levels of political authority in the United States, the principals of the National Security Council, sitting in the Situation Room of the White house.
 
The combined evidence from the two ABC stories indicates that Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Tenet, and Goss are not just guilty of signing-off on the general policy of torture, but that each of them is personally responsible for directly participating in the real-time commission of specific acts of torture.
 
The only question that remains is what we are going to do about it. The severity of these crimes demands that an impeachment trial be called for all of the Constitutional officers involved, and a criminal investigation for everyone else who participated in these crimes against our constitution and laws is required.
 
It up to us to either reject these criminals and punish all those who have participated in crafting, approving, and executing these acts of torture, or continue to act like little fascist bitches, and continue serving, and allowing others to serve a criminal government that commits crimes against our democracy, our rights, our Constitution, and humanity. In other words, we can"t act like Democrats.
 
As the democrats have taken impeachment off the table, and have either assisted, or looked the other way as this administration continues to commit the most serious crimes ever committed against our constitution, our rights, and our democracy during our country's whole history, a mere change of party will not erase these crimes.
 
The democrats have proved themselves as corrupt as the republicans. The democrats toleration of these crimes has made them an accessory before, during, and after the crimes, not part of the solution. Finding the solution to these crimes and corruptions demands that all good Americans rise above their party affiliations, and work together to heal the political wounds in our political system that has allowed systematic corporate corruption to dominate both of our parties.
 
Until we eliminate bribery from our democratic process, we will continue to suffer under the venal, corrupt, and incompetent politicians that dominate both parties.
 
The vast majority of dems and repugs are unified in their mutual dependence on corporate and special interest bribery to get and keep their political power. As they depend on corporate bribery to get elected, they serve their corporate masters, not their voters, after getting elected, independent of party. The only way we can end these corrupted parties' monopoly of our democracy, their support for dictators, and their tolerance of illegal war and torture is to choke out the source of their corrupt power: Corporate Bribery.
 
Both parties are using the massive corporate bribes that put and keep them in political power as a mutual political shield against the limits on power required by our constitution. As both parties are corrupted, neither is capable nor inclined to hold the other to the rules of the constitution or the rule of law itself.
 
And thus rose Bush, the corporate fascist, to the presidency of the united States.
 
The parties mutual dependence on corporate bribes to keep each of them in power has allowed both parties to mutually ignore the the limits and checks on power required by our Constitution, and these corrupted corporate traitors have succeeded in capturing our democracy, and twisting it into corporate fascist state that spys on everyone, imposes dictators, wages illegal wars, and runs secret prisons where they torture their enemies.
 
I don't wonder why these crimes are not the major issue in our presidential election. It's simple: We live in a corporate state, with corporate political parties that fund and support corporate politicians, all of which is reported on by the corporate media.
 
Join our fight to snatch our democracy back from the dirty hands of the parties and their corporate sponsors. Help us end the corruption that keeps these criminals and traitors in office. Until we do, they will continue to steal our rights, our money, impose dictators on the world, and torture those who resist their evil empire.
 
check out the initiative that will restore democracy in california.
 
If corporate fascism does not end with you, it will not end.

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Background:
 
John Yoo's torture memo of 8-2002

Corruption Updates 80, 1st article on the page, "CIA Lawyer who Justifies Torture Detention Appears before Congress"
 
Corruption Updates 80, 4th article on the page, "Abu Ghraib: Taguba fired for Probing too Deeply"
 
Corruption Updates 83, 1st article on the page, "Cheney the Torture mastermind"
 
Corruption Updates 84, 1st article on the page,"Pelosi: Impeachment 'off the table"
 
Corruption Updates 91, 4th article on the page, "In Intelligence World, A Mute Watchdog: Bush Above the Law"
 
Bush signs new CIA Torture authorization, LAT, July 21, 2007
 
Corruption Updates 99, 5th article on the page, "Bush Could Bypass new Torture Ban"
 
ABA Clear: Bush Policy allows Torture, AP, 8-10-07

Corruption Updates 101, 10th article on the page, Report: Harsh Methods Used On 9/11 Suspect
 
Book: Torture Taxi reveals us system of kidnapping, secret prisons, and torture, Toward Freedom, 9-6-07
 
Mukasey is drawn into an old fight: Dems Ready to Confirm AG who will Protect Bush's Crimes, Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2007
 
Bush and Psychologists Who Abet Torture, harper's 7-07
 
Rorschach and Awe, Vanity Fair, 7-17-07
 
Psychologists oppose torture yet vote to attend terror interrogations, SF Chron, August 20, 2007
 
Corruption Updates 119, 2nd article on the page, Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations: Bush's Signing Statements on McCain's Anti-Torture Law in 2005 have been know to All
 
Navy Seal testifies before Congress: Waterboarding is torture, Independent (UK), November 2007
 
Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime, wp, 11-4-04

Dems confirm unitary president, torture, and and all of Bush's crimes through Mukasey Confirmation, Washington Post, November 9, 2007
 
Liars in Congress to ban torture: They already did, and bush ignored them, NYT, December 7, 2007
 
ABC Promotes Torture, ABC, 12-10-07
 
Justice opens criminal investigation of CIA, lat, January 2, 2008
 
Bush re nominates bradbury, author of torture memos, for office of legal counsel, nyt, January 24, 2008
 
mukasey rules torture legal, reuters, 1-30-08
 
Mukasey's rulings predictable before confirmation, committee, 8-28-07
 
white house admits war crimes, ap 2-6-08

Mukasey refuses to prosecute War Crimes, ap, 2-7-08

UN condemns US Torture, ap, 2-6-08
 
Scumbag Scalia supports torture, reuters, 2-13-08
 
Bush vetoes torture ban, again, Mar. 8, 2008 (Reuters)
 
waterboarding torture bill fails in house, ap, 3-12-08
 
full torture/kidnapping link list