The differing views of the "rule of law" in Spain and the U.S »
Posted By tehranchik 8 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsScott Horton reports this morning that, in Spain, "prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates [John Yoo, Jay Bybee, David Addington, Doug Feith and William Haynes] over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo." Spain not only has the right under the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture to prosecute foreign officials for torturing its citizens, but it -- like the U.S. -- has the affirmative obligation to do so. (Indeed, the Bush administration itself insisted just last year that the U.S. the right to criminally prosecute foreign officials for ordering acts of torture even in the absence of an accusation that any of the victims were American).
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This is one area that I vehemently disagree with our administration's policy of looking ahead and not backward on prosecuting crime committed by the previous administration.
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Rule of law. Plain and simple. We are obligated by international treaties to prosecute crimes of torture. The nazi excuse of, "I was just following orders", doesn't work. I'm sure the nazis justified torture for the good of the state and their lawyers told them it was okay.
Democrats Rockefeller and Feinstein should hang their heads in shame for wanting to promote the chief of torture implementation to the job of Director of the CIA. The CIA needs cleaning with a precis and deliberate manner. The leaders have to go. To prison preferably. -
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