{"id":196558,"date":"2008-04-15T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/bush-directly-approved-torture-techniques\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:06:00","slug":"bush-directly-approved-torture-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/15\/bush-directly-approved-torture-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Directly Approved Torture Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He knew that his advisers were discussing this, and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/TheLaw\/LawPolitics\/story?id=4635175&amp;page=1\">he approved their activities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>&#8220;Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people.&#8221; Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. &#8220;And yes, I&#8217;m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He needs to spend the rest of his life in jail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He knew that his advisers were discussing this, and he approved their activities: &#8220;Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people.&#8221; Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. &#8220;And yes, I&#8217;m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.&#8221; He needs to spend &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,969,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}