bush got retroactive immunity for war crimes?

[Kilarin]

Ok, this is old news, a year old. But somehow I missed it last year.

link to cnn vid
link to common dreams article
link to boston globe article

The gist of it is that Bush got congress to pass a bill amending the War Crimes act so as to give himself, and his entire administration, immunity from prosecution under said act, retroactive back to 09/11.

Now you'll note, all of the sources linked above are left wing. But when I did a google on this, thats all I came up with. That makes me a bit suspicious that perhaps they have misinterpreted what passed?

But, then again, President Bush has shown a willingness to push the limits of interrogation just as far as he thinks he can get away with, and even further. And he shows a complete disregard for any kind of oversight or justice in any case involving \"terror\". So I wouldn't put it past him.

But surely if this had really passed it would have made a bigger splash in the news?

Anyone got confirmation one way or the other?

[Kyouryuu]

But surely if this had really passed it would have made a bigger splash in the news?

Now, why would you think that?

[TIGERassault]

It's too hard to tell whether this really happened or not.

Also, why doesn't this Wiki page have war crimes from the 'War on Terrorism'?