E mail exposes executive order to torture

Despite numerous denials from the Bush administration that US does not torture, more and more evidence disputing their claims are surfacing. A e-mail written by a senior FBI agent in Iraq in 2004 and obtained through the FOA by the ACLU stated that President George W. Bush had signed an Executive Order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.

The White House has emphatically denied that any such presidential Executive Order existed, calling the unnamed FBI official who wrote the e-mail “mistaken.” The ACLU has called on Congress to demand that a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate whether the President and other officials broke federal and international laws, “including the War Crimes Act, the federal Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws.” You can read the email at http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/FBI.121504.494...