Reason Bush Needs Military Tribunals?

From the Washington Post on Sept. 10th:

Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance
Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases

The new enrollments reflect heightened anxiety at the CIA that officers may be vulnerable to accusations they were involved in abuse, torture, human rights violations and other misconduct, including wrongdoing related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. ... The White House contends the methods were legal, but some CIA officers have worried privately that they may have violated international law or domestic criminal statutes.

As part of the administration's efforts to protect intelligence officers from liability, Bush ... asked Congress to bar federal courts from considering lawsuits by detainees who were in CIA or military custody that allege violations of international treaties and laws governing treatment of detainees.

It's beginning to sound to me like the Bush Administration may really need military tribunals for any trials that might take place in order to avoid thorough exploration of the treatment of people detained at Guantanamo Bay and in the CIA 'secret prisons' that the President has admitted exist. If it were so clear that torture did not happen, as the President insists, then why do CIA operatives feel the need for insurance policies? Why does the President believe it is necessary to protect the CIA against lawsuits- to the point of asking Congress to completely bar such lawsuits?

I actually fear the revelations that may come at some point from the conduct of this Administration and its treatment of detainees. The efforts being undertaken to prevent information from coming to light makes me suspect that the President has good reason to keep that information under wraps- he hasn't told us the truth.

GP