Story Comments
Posted by: hyperbola 7 months, 3 weeks ago
This page is a permanent archive of the comment below and its replies.
To view this comment in the context of the full discussion for the story, use this link.
-
50%
hyperbola7 months, 3 weeks ago
This comment is below the standard viewing threshold View It »
We will see if Obama is serious about joining the world's democracies and abandoning our military imperialism when we see if he signs the US up to the international criminal court.
Reply
There is no question that we have a boatload of criminals that need trials. This article provides a good list of them and provides Obama a good opportunity to show whether he will really enforce the american constitution.
The torture trail starts and ends in the White House
...This disclosure comes after the Senate Armed Services Committee’s detailed report, which debunks almost all the claims that Bush Administration officials have thrown up to put investigators off the trail of the torture policy. The claim that the decision to introduce torture was done to accommodate interrogators who were frustrated by their inability to get results, for instance, is belied by the fact that the White House was busy pursuing torture techniques and authority to introduce them before any prisoners had yet been taken....
But each of these disclosures points again to a great mass of potential evidence remaining securely hidden. Colin Powell himself has repeatedly noted that the National Security Council was the center of activity with respect to the introduction of torture and that it carefully documents its internal processes with minutes and records. He urged those pursuing the issue to press for full disclosure of these materials. His guidance (which is remarkable among other things because he will himself be at the center of the inquiry) is revealed by the Holder memorandum to be spot-on....
President Obama and several of his senior advisors are now plainly concerned about the torture issue and the momentum it has achieved. ... We know now that the White House considers it politically “inconvenient” to do this. So the big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/04/26/the-tort...
loading ...
sinophil49
Post Reply
You are not signed in to Propeller.com. Please sign in to post a reply.