Olbermann: 'Criminal Conspiracy to Cover the Ass' of 'Fascist' Bush

Published: November 6, 2007, 1:41 am

Tags: interrogation techniques, war on terrorism, daniel levin, george w bush, keith olbermann, countdown, msnbc

On Monday's "Countdown," MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment," inspired by revelations that former Acting Assistant Attorney General Daniel Levin had advised the Bush administration that waterboarding of Al-Qaeda terrorists should be considered torture, as the "Countdown" host charged that "the presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the ass of George W. Bush." He further accused Bush of intentionally inducing Al-Qaeda prisoners to make false confessions which Bush could speak of publicly for political gain, which Olbermann contended would "mean George W. Bush is going to prison." He also warned that Bush would like to use his "nightmare presidency" to move America on a course similar to that of 1930s Japanese fascism. Olbermann: "And then to the giddying prospect that maybe you could do what the military fanatics did in Japan in the 1930s and remake a

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