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JUSTICE FOR WAR CRIMINALS: NEW DEVELOPMENTS |
IF AMERICA WILL NOT PROSECUTE ITS OWN CRIMINALS, THE WORLD WILL! |
New memos have been released by the White House detailing the legal justification used by Bush administration officials for interrogation through torture. At the same time, President Obama announced that agents who used these methods would not be prosecuted, even though they qualify as war crimes. |
A
federal
Judge
in
Spain
has
begun to prepare a case against six former Bush
administration officials for authorizing torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo
Bay. According to Spanish law, juristiction can be claimed because several
Spainish citizens were held at the prison camp and tortured. The Judge has made
it clear that this case would not be neccesary if the Obama administration had
begun prosecution on its own. |
UPDATE: April 29th- Judge Baltasar Garzon has confimed that he will proceed with an investigation
into allegations of torture at Guantanamo bay, and probe the "perpetrators,
the instigators, the necessary collaborators and accomplices" of these atrocities.
In light of the memos already released by the Obama administration, this
investigation can only lead to a trial.. |
Judge Garzon |
UPDATE: May 14th- President Obama has not kept his word to release classified photos to accompany
the interrogation memos. In April he stated these images would be made
public, but he now says they would "inflame anti-American opinion and put our
troops in greater danger". This reversal makes it appear that he has something
to hide. It may be up to the Supreme Court to force the White House to release
the photos. |
May 14th, - Nancy Pelosi now admits that she was aware of waterboarding and other
practices as early as 2002- a fact that contradicts many statements she previously
made, and indicates that Congress was informed of and involved in the torture
program. |
World Can't Wait protest- Grand Central Station |
Rep. Pelosi |
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