Bush’s Lawyers Claim That He is Above the Geneva Convention

Penta­gon Report Set Frame­work For Use of Torture
Bush admin­is­tra­tion lawyers con­tend­ed last year that the pres­i­dent was­n’t bound by laws pro­hibit­ing tor­ture and that gov­ern­ment agents who might tor­ture pris­on­ers at his direc­tion could­n’t be pros­e­cut­ed by the Jus­tice Department.

The arti­cle is from the Wall Street Jour­nal, repub­lished else­where for the ben­e­fit of non-subscribers.