Bush tampers with war prisoner rights (many of them European Nationals) - by HELEN THOMAS
Why does the Bush administration insist on tinkering with the long-established laws on military conduct and treaties of the US? Bush administration officials are drafting amendments to the 1996 War Crimes Act to immunize political appointees, CIA officials and former military personnel from criminal prosecution for humiliating or degrading treatment of prisoners of war. The War Crimes Act makes it a felony to violate the Geneva Conventions. Those treaties govern military conduct in wartime and were ratified in 1949 in the aftermath of World War II. The administration's proposed amendments would reduce the number of acts against detainees subject to criminal prosecution.
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