Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has been going around congress and quietly asking members to consider making legal some of the violations of the Geneva Conventions article 3 that George Bush has already admitted to violating.
He's doing that because the War Crimes Act of 1996 says that US Nationals who violate the Geneva Conventions Article 3 are in violation, and subject to imprisonment and execution under that act (ouch).
So, the Supreme Court has already held that the Geneva Conventions Article 3 applies to the War on Terrorism, and Bush has publicly acknowledge violating it. In fact:
At a July 13 hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Air Force's top military lawyer, Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives, affirmed that "some of the techniques that have been authorized and used in the past have violated Common Article 3" of the Geneva Conventions. The top military lawyers for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, who were seated next to Rives, said they agreed.
The bill was originally passed by voice vote in the House (effectively unanimous), and unanimously by the Senate.
What exactly should be done with that?
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