Torture: Some Global Implications
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29 March 2009
The following story represents just one of the great crevasses opened by torture. This is serious business. Some previously high-placed American officials could be forced to restrict international travel, or face arrest and imprisonment in foreign jails:
Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials
By MARLISE SIMONS
LONDON — A Spanish court has taken the first steps toward opening a criminal investigation into allegations that six former high-level Bush administration officials violated international law by providing the legal framework to justify the torture of prisoners atGuantánamo Bay, Cuba, an official close to the case said.
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Comments
I congratulate Spain and any other nation that would prosecute the madmen in the US White House who authorized torture for being the war criminals that they are. It is only a shame that prosecutors in the USA are so dishonorable and hypocritical that they won't exercise the same war crimes tribunal against our leaders that were exercised against the German leaders after WWII. It just goes to show that the victors write the history and those same dishonorable people are still in control of USA government even though the names of the players has changed.
moveamericaforw ard.org's contingent has.
If I were to guess I'd say that the answer is no and that Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian officials, who've been instrumental in KILLING thousands, are not subject to a threat of arrest were they to travel to Spain.
Just more, typical, leftist hypocrisy.
And it is also becoming typical for Yon to latch on to such stories as somehow being proof of how evil the Bush administration was.
Google and Wiki search results show no official website for "Association for the Dignity of Prisoners."
AftDoP has no official spokesperson or the writer for the NYT's decilined to interview them.
Who founded AfdDoP? How are they funded?
Investigative journalism at its finest! Well done Mr Yon.
http://angelpolitics.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/gonzalo-boye-behind-lawsuit-against-benjamin-ben-eliezer/
Secondly, the people named in the court case are those that gave advice to the President about what did or did not constitute torture (AG Gonzales, John C. Yoo, etc...). These people did not make policy on whether the U.S. should torture. They did not participate in torturing someone. These men gave their advice to the President when asked what his options were. If they can be jailed for voicing opinion, then what is to stop the rest of us from being jailed?
I'm glad to see that this topic is finally catching on in the US. For too long the Bush Administration conducted shady interrogations and then tried to hide it. I understand the need for intelligence, and the good that it does, but I cannot support devaluing human dignity to that point, I just think is a matter that should be handled internally, and with Condi Rice and Cheney making headlines for signing off on waterboarding, it looks like it is being taken care of.
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