Lubbock Left

While talking to students at Stanford University on Thursday, Condoleezza Rice may have stepped in it by admitting to conspiracy.

Here’s the crux of it:

In a video that surfaced Thursday, Rice said, “The president instructed us that nothing we would do would be outside of our obligation, legal obligations under the convention against torture… I conveyed the authorization of the administration to the agency. And so by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Convention Against Torture.”

(emphasis mine)

I was not alive for Watergate, but this sure does sound like Nixon when he said, “When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.”

I hope serious, independent investigations start soon. As the rawstory article indicates, inaction itself may be a crime under the Geneva conventions. More importantly however, I believe that America’s national conscience will not be at peace unless we figure out who authorized torture and hold them accountable for it.