9, 50â51; and Bilateral Immunity Agreements, 151; cabinet of, 8; commander-in-chief powers of, 60â61, 82â83; devastation caused by presidency of, xiiâxv; education agenda of, 117; impeachable offenses of, 25, 49, 136â37; on intelligence failure in Iraq, 31; international accountability for, 141â63; and International Criminal Court, 149; and Libbyâs prison sentence, 18, 120; lies and deception by, regarding Iraq War and occupation, xiv, 1â37; memoir by, ix, 2, 29, 35, 70, 78, 105, 107, 111, 114, 141; mistakes not admitted by, 117â18; motivations of, for Iraq War, 3â4, 35, 165; pardon for discussed, ix; protection of against prosecution of generally, xâxi, xiiiâxv, 3, 14â15; reelection of, 4, 25; retirement of, ix; State of the Union address (2003) by, 1â2, 7, 15â21; steps needed in prosecution of, xivâxv.
See also
Iraq; Iraq War; prosecution; torture; waterboarding; wiretapping
âBush Six,â 146
Bybee, Jay: as federal judge, 146; and illegal wiretapping by Bush administration, 79; impeachable offenses of, 137; international accountability for, 146; and torture memos, 79, 80, 83â85, 99, 104, 106, 107, 137; as Yooâs supervisor, 56
Cambodia, xii, 41
Cameron, David, 114, 161
Canada, 130â31, 148, 156, 161â62
Card, Andrew, Jr., 11
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 8, 10, 13, 23, 32â33
Carter, Jimmy, 42, 43
CAT.
See
Convention Against Torture
Cauley, Leslie, 45
CBS News, 70
Center for American Progress, 50
Center for Constitutional Rights, 130, 146, 148â49, 153, 167
Center for International Policy, 10â11
Center for Public Integrity, 13â14
Central Intelligence Agency.
See
CIA
Cheney, Richard B.: accountability needed for crimes committed by, xiâxii, xivâxv;on Afghanistan War, 30; on biological weapons labs in Iraq, 32; and CIA, 33; and conspiracy to defraud U.S. government, 28, 36; and FISA law, 44; and Geneva Conventions, 76; impeachable offenses of, 137; international accountability for, 151; and Iraqâs alleged procurement of uranium from Niger, 18; on Iraq War, 30; on link between 9/11 attacks and Iraq, 32, 75; and âmarketingâ strategy for Iraq War, 11, 12, 13; pardon for discussed, ix; and Presidentâs Surveillance Program, 44â45, 47, 53, 54, 55, 58, 62â64, 66; protection of, against prosecution of generally, xâxi, xiiiâxv, 3, 14â15; and State of the Union address (2003) by Bush, 1; steps needed in prosecution of, xivâxv; on torture, x, 70, 79, 86, 89, 95, 101, 105, 109, 110, 116; on United Nations inspections for WMD in Iraq, 13; and War Crimes Act (1996), 74; on waterboarding, 70, 86; on WMD, 30.
See also
Iraq War and occupation
Chertoff, Michael, 81
Chiarella, Louis A., 42
Chilcot, Sir John, 159â61
Chile, 145â46, 166
China, 71, 75
Christian Science Monitor
, 3, 36â37
Church, Frank, 41, 138â39
CIA: on al Qaeda threats, 9, 50, 51; and bin Laden, 112â13; on biological weapons labs in Iraq, 32; and Bush on intelligence failure in Iraq, 31; and Cheney, 33; on effectiveness of Bushâs Presidentâs Surveillance Program, 59; and
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
, 97; internal assessment of interrogation techniques and torture by, 94â95, 105, 111â12, 114; international accountability for, 142, 152â55, 157; interrogation techniques of and torture of prisoners by, 37, 69â70, 73â85, 88â90, 94, 104, 105, 111â12, 114, 116, 121, 132, 138; on Iraq as not connected to 9/11 attacks, 9, 10; and Iraqâs alleged procurement of uranium from Niger, 17, 18; on Iraqâs procurement of aluminum tubes, 17; kidnapping of El-Masri by, 131, 154; and link between al Qaeda and Iraq, 9, 10, 13, 37, 75; missing videos of detainee interrogations by, 89, 94, 104, 120, 126â27; âoutingâ of Plame as CIA agent, 18, 120, 127; rendition flights over Europe by, 162; secret
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