Sudhan @11:05 CET
Nat Hentoff | RiNF.COM, June 29, 2008
In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future of Hillary Clinton—56 Democrats in the House of Representatives asked for “an immediate investigation with the appointment of a special counsel to determine whether actions taken by the President, his Cabinet, and other Administration officials are in violation of the War Crimes Act (18 U.S.C. 2441) . . . and other U.S. and international laws.”
This isn’t front-page news?
The letter began with a brief account of the notorious facts about Abu Ghraib (”sexual exploitation and torture”) and Guantánamo (”an independent investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross documented several . . . acts of torture . . . including soaking a prisoner’s head in alcohol and lighting it on fire”). Nor was “coercive interrogation” in Afghanistan omitted: “In October 2005, The New York Times reported that three detainees were killed during interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq by CIA agents or CIA contractors.”
This is not a call for articles of impeachment. Bush will soon be gone, and the new president and Congress have far too much to do to get mired in that quicksand. These are grave criminal charges, and since international crimes are involved as well as the U.S. War Crimes Act and the Anti-Torture Act, other nations whose laws include “universal jurisdiction” could prosecute.
But why would House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers Jr. and Intelligence Committee members Jerrold Nadler (my congressional representative) and Jan Schakowsky—among other signers—make such dramatic and historic charges of “war crimes” now, after most congressional Democrats have not shown the same interest? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for example, is not on the list of signers; she and Senate Democratic majority leader Harry Reid have never, in their opposition to the administration, come anywhere near these shocking accusations.
It’s called “cover” – it’s what Repigs do … however it may not keep working as well as it has.
I seriously and sincerely believe that the crimes of this entire administration will be exposed to the world’s eye. For some reason, our Congress appears to be the only body in this entire world that refuses to do the right thing and yes, I recognize that the Pigs are filibustering everything so bills can’t come to the floor, with the complicity of the Blue Dogs and the corrupt leadership of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid respectively.
This is not over people – unless of course, that PIG McSame gets elected which doesn’t actually seem very likely to me. There’s too much wrong with him and his “positions” which change by the minute.