"The Torture Memos" Rationalizing The Unthinkable - Obama Administration 2009 Public Release "Including Former Classified 'Top Secret' Legal Analyses" Of "The Legal Counsel Of The United States Department Of Justice ("DOJ") Complete Memos" 2005-2009 In Which As Directed And Ordered Legal Counsel Used Convoluted Logic And Tortured Reasoning "Twisting Language And The Law To Rationalize The Unthinkable" Not Discerning "True" Meaning Of Plain Words Forbidding All "Torture" But Rather Bastardize It To Justify The CIA (Totally Failing To Predict 9/11 Attacks) Illegal Use Of Mental And Physical Torture, Commission Of Atrocities And Crimes Against Humanity With Full Complicity Of Criminal "Little Shrub" Bush 43 Administration Officials In Direct Violation Of U.S. Human Rights Laws And International Treaties Against Torture Straight To Hell Boys And Girl

       Thursday, 30 October 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. -  As the horrifying early moments unfolded in the escalating frightened growing confusion of 11 September 2001 informed by no quality "intelligence work" but rather largely contradictory anecdotal information from sources such as flight attendants and radar operators as to exactly what was unfolding on the East Coast of the United States there were at least two men whose response could be taken for something outside of the ordinary American considering their utter failure in their responsibilities in their official capacities for the United States Government given the coming realization of the magnitude of what was occurring with no coherent warning whatsoever.
       One of the two being not-really-elected "President" George "little shrub" Bush already struggling his way through an elementary school level book as he was desperate not to make the kind of error that still haunted the political memory of former GOP heavyweight "potatoe" Dan Quayle which still resonated with shrill little girls' laughter through the hallways of America's elementary schools.
       Now on top of that memory still haunting him "little shrub" had nearly been knocked entirely off course from his "read-out-loud" by the approach of an aide whispering to him that "one of the Twin Towers had come down". And what on earth was not-really-elected "President" Bush supposed anyhow to do even to start to try to digest that piece of somehow seemingly significant information at the very same moment he struggled just to make a transition to the next paragraph without exposing to the rapt third-graders before him the challenges posed him by the overwhelming task of reading third-grade level English as if it were his first language?
       Another couple minutes passed and sure enough another aide entered and told "little shrub" that Vice-President Cheney himself (of all the people that no one wanted to speak with even on a good day) was on the phone and insistent to boot as the aide whispered "Sir, the second of the Twin Towers" has come down. That sounded bad. "Little shrub" continued reading for a couple more minutes as the class became increasingly restless sensing the dis-ease of the men in suits. "Well how many of these Twin Towers are there?" the not-really-elected "President" asked.
       "Two sir". The aide handed him the dreaded Vice-President Cheney. "Dick I understand that there were two of these towers and they both have come down which leaves none, I think".
        "That's right, you moron". "Little shrub" knew it must have been pretty important then. Cheney was not in the habit of calling his "boss" such things as his usual practice was merely to ignore the "President" and not tell him anything at all as he issued orders or had aides count out stacks of hundred dollar bills for Blackdeath's latest "no-bid" contract advance.
       "Any idea what happened, Dick?" "Little shrub" could see the Secret Service detail were coming to get him.
       "They were hit by large passenger planes that had been hijacked by Arabs. We have a list of their names with photos." The "little shrub" was impressed by how quickly even with all his "business connections" that Cheney had come up with that information and told Cheney so. "We should have them information we hired them."  He reminded "little shrub" that his brother Bush oddly enough also had the contract for the Twin Towers security.
       "Is this serious, do you think, Dick? Do you think I better come back? How do you know they're Arabs if it just happened five minutes ago and they crashed into skyscrapers and knocked them down?"
       "Like I said we hired them. We know. I have already made arrangements for you to take the exact same motor route back to the airport so no one thinks anything suspicious is going on. You are going to fly around the country on your Air Force One out west somewhere so no one can find you. I will be in the Situation Room, I am already at the White House, and I will be in charge from here on in."
       "Thanks, Dick. I really appreciate it. Do you know if my golf video game is on my plane right now? I thought it was going to be a shorter trip?
       "You do not worry "shrub". If it is not we will have a couple fighters and an AWAC land in a Wal-Mart parking lot in the Midwest and have it brought up to you."
       "Thanks, Dick. You are the best. Let me know what happens with this towers thing."
       "Sure Mr. President. Do not worry if I do not get a chance to call for a while. You can always see what is happening on FOX."  With that Dick Cheney hung up the phone and glanced around the situation room lit up like a fireworks display. He was not quite sure who or why yet but they had the oil fields marked all over the globe. He rubbed his hands together in anticipation. Meanwhile he called over some of the old Halliburton boys and told them to start drawing up their own contracts to move into Afghanistan first and draft some preliminary plans to attack Iraq along the best pipeline routes.
       The news reports waiting for months with just a few details to be filled in would be going out over the world news wires in a matter of moments. Lesson One implemented in less than two hours. Cheney had control of the narrative. He got some Congressional wonk to begin work cutting and pasting the "Patriot Act" crossing out "beta" and had the staff beginning to assemble the 400+ page bill to be on every Congressperson's desk by 4 a.m. September 12th.
       Beautiful it contained everything that Congress had rejected before in recent years of proposed Executive Branch powers. He figured they would give them five to ten minutes to read it before the critical vote, a matter of "national" security. He made a note to have the word "terrorism" thrown in at least once a paragraph.

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       Although loyal readers the Ninth Amendment cannot say with certainty how much of the above is precisely correct because of differing recollections the gist of it certainly accurate. Unfortunately what follows and was summarized in the headline to this post is. As readers may imagine there were quite a number of U.S "national security" groups who were caught on September 11, 2001 with their pants way down, particularly those most well-known perhaps of the "acronymed" groups including the CIA, FBI, NSA and so on.
       Sadly the facts alluded to in the headline to this post are entirely true. In the wake of the September 11, 2001 tragedy there were a great many diverse representatives of the burgeoning "national security" field who apparently despite the tremendous growth in resources, rhetoric and so on had very little indeed to show for their level or the Country's level of preparedness on September 11, 2001. Cheney pulling Bush behind with a crew of  newly emerged "experts" grabbed from their desks who themselves admitted that despite being shown non-stop marathon slideshows for something like twenty hours at a time in a cubicle in the Pentagon really could not say just as the CIA that there was any solid evidence of "WMDs". Nevertheless Cheney in very short order had gotten his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. For him it truly was "Mission Accomplished".
       Now of course came time for some of the shamed "national security" agencies" to begin their push from all fronts for "expanded" incursions into Americans' civil rights achieved not so much by honest debate as by deception and the type of legal trickery mentioned in the headline above. These were described by the euphemistic term "enhanced interrogation techniques.
       In any case unfortunately this blatant mischaracterization on the meaning of words and laws did tragically find its way also into the area of torture by the United States. How many have ever asked if sincerely perhaps it was terrorists themselves who having planned so much else so carefully had also schemed to raise the level of "terror" such that it resulted in the horrific attacks on U.S. Constitutional rights we have seen perpetrated by legislatures, prosecutors and upheld by the courts as well as acts of torture we never before would have conceived against foreign (or our own) nationals. In any case there is one well-known rumor or a sitting Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals justice who got his seat for life in a deal with the criminal Bush administration in return for writing the original bogus "Torture" justification memo which spawned all the others.
       In any case the Ninth Amendment editorial board wishes to emphasize that under the Obama administration in 2009  "The Torture Memos" were released which is a comprehensive collection of all legal memos prepared by the Office of Legal Counsel from 2005-2009 of the DOJ as well as of the CIA which has been described as only having redacted material to eliminate redundancy. This may not be altogether true as there are a couple allusions on the book jacket to some sections still being classified.
       "The Torture Memos"  - Rationalizing The Unthinkable - released in April 2009 by www.thenewpress.com is Edited and With An Introductory Commentary by David Cole, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, with credentials also including a frequent contributor to the New York Review Of Books as well as others. He lives in Washington, D.C. The Foreword is by Phillippe Sands, QC, a leading international lawyer, a law professor at University College, and author of also of "Torture Team". He lives in London. The Torture Memos although contained in one volume is not a thick book. The Ninth Amendment recently was able to purchase a copy for $3.00 used conveniently shelved with Girl Scout Books.
       "The CIA's Office of Legal Counsel, While Saying It Would Not Use Post 9/11 To Allow The CIA TO Use Torture Techniques It Has In Fact Allowed The CIA To Use Whatever Torture Techniques It Wanted". "Chilling. We cannot continue to look the other way." Senator Patrick Leahy, In conclusion: "Rather than demand that the CIA conform its conduct to the law, the lawyers convoluted the law to the CIA's desires". Readers interested for more details concerning these sick U.S. torture programs endorsed by counsel with the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel including enshrining for all time the names of attorneys and perhaps a sitting Justice on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals bring shame to their children and all future generations as well as to the practice of law including further information on the infamous memos used to justify the heinous atrocities perpetrated by the C.I.A. and doubtless continuing to this day in overseas C.I.A. and military prisons may consult the below article for further information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos

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