While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Commander-in-Chief President George W. Bush issues Executive Order 13440 reinterpreting Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention of 1949, to allow the Central Intelligence Agency to secretly and indefinitely detain suspected enemy combatants for the purposes of torture.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
George W. Bush: Executive Order 13440—Interpretation of the Geneva Conventions Common Article 3 as Applied to a Program of Detention and Interrogation Operated by the Central Intelligence Agency
www.presidency.scsb.eds/ws/index.php?pid=75569&st=&st1=
Rosa Brooks: Dark Powers, the Sequel
articles.latimes.com/2007/jsl/27/opinion/oe-brooks27
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