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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PROLIFE who wrote (727064)2/21/2006 2:31:17 PM
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Bush was warned about prison policy, insider says
Washington -- A top Pentagon lawyer warned the White House that its detainee policy would lead to the kind of abuse that eventually took place at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, the New Yorker magazine wrote Monday.

Albert Mora, who until January was the U.S. Navy's general counsel, with the equivalent rank of a four-star general, told his superiors in 2002 that a secret decision by President George W. Bush to circumvent the Geneva Conventions against mistreatment of war prisoners would likely lead to criminal abuse of detainees.

According to the magazine, Mr. Mora, often supported by other senior Pentagon legal officials, fought a quiet battle for years against the "unlawful" and "dangerous" legal justifications for White House-sanctioned mistreatment. But, it said, he was blocked at top levels, especially by a group of lawyers aligned with Vice-President Dick Cheney. AFP
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