Pinochet judge weighs criminal probe of Bush ‘torture lawyers’
Raw Story- Stephen C. Webster
Published: Saturday March 28, 2009
Spanish official says arrest warrants ‘highly probable’
Six Bush-era officials responsible for crafting the legal justifications permitting the military prison at Guantanamo Bay are the subject of a potential Spanish criminal probe which could place the men under serious risk of arrest if they travel outside the United States.
“[Spanish newspaper] 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,” noted Scott Horton at Harper’s.
He called them Bush’s “torture lawyers.”
On March 17, Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, published an editorial in the Washington Note which accused Bush officials of knowingly holding innocent men in Guantanamo Bay for years.
“The case was sent to the prosecutor’s office for review by Baltasar Garzón, the crusading investigative judge who indicted the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet,” reported the New York Times. “The official said that it was ‘highly probable’ that the case would go forward and could lead to arrest warrants.”
That’s what should happen in this country. Instead everything is swept under the rug or the truth muddied.
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Boy, imagine all the Bushies in leg irons in the Hague!
That could make even a rockin’ Goth Girl smile.
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cosanostradamus:
I am imagining that and I can’t wipe the smile from my face..
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9/11 Nukes
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?t=239753
Silly, Silly Spanish courts, you can’t really believe that the U.S. will let you nonsense courts grab and prosecute ex-high ranking officials in the administration? Really, you and your courts should spend more time working on the ETA problem you have and less on what the important countries do.