Bush Torture Lawyers Targeted in Criminal Probe »
Posted By tehranchik 8 months ago in Political NewsOne of America’s NATO allies—which supported the Bush Administration’s war on terror by committing its troops to the struggle–has now opened formal criminal inquiries looking into the Bush team’s legacy of torture. The action parallels a criminal probe into allegations of torture involving the American CIA that was opened this week in the United Kingdom.
Spain’s national newspapers, El País and Público reported that the Spanish national security court has opened a criminal probe focusing on Bush Administration lawyers who pioneered the descent into torture at the prison in Guantánamo. The criminal complaint can be examined here. Público identifies the targets as University of California law professor John Yoo, former Department of Defense general counsel William J. Haynes II (now a lawyer working for Chevron), former vice presidential chief-of-staff David Addington, former attorney general and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, now a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith.
The case was opened in the Spanish national security court, the Audencia Nacional. In July 2006, the Spanish Supreme Court overturned the conviction of a former Spanish citizen who had been held in Guantánamo, labeling the regime established in Guantánamo a “legal black hole.” The court forbade Spanish cooperation with U.S. authorities in connection with the Guantánamo facility. The current criminal case evolved out of an investigation into allegations, sustained by Spain’s Supreme Court, that the Spanish citizen had been tortured in Guantánamo.
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hyperbola8 months ago
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Poor Georgia. Must rankle you that the Spanish banned slavery in the New World over 350 years before America (in 1508).
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Or, must rankle you that in WWII the first allied troops into Paris, and who accepted the surrender of the German commander, were Spanish Republicans who had been fighting fascism since 1936.
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Endoscopy8 months ago
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A real garbage story if ever there was one. Spain is going to investigate our citizens. What a crock. No one here can give a darn about what ever they find. Rules of law are different here than there for starters and they may just want to play a blame game. What would they say if we selected some of their citizens and held a tribunal about them? They would correctly tell us to take a flying leap.
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Just listen to the super liberals ranting about how bad this country is. If you don't like it leave. -
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