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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor: Prosecute Those Who Authorized Torture
Washington’s Blog
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Darrel Vandeveld served as a prosecutor in the Guantanamo military commissions. He resigned due to ethical problems with the tribunal system, and is currently serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserve.
Vandeveld co-wrote an op-ed with the president of the ACLU calling for the prosecution of torture:
Torture is a crime and the United States engaged in it. Those are two indisputable facts…
The process of self-examination and accountability has been, and remains, the only way to move forward and regain our moral and legal grounding…
We have a Department of Justice for a reason, and now it’s up to Attorney General Holder, the nation’s top law enforcement officer, to do his job and appoint an independent prosecutor to follow the evidence where it may lead…
It is critical that we hold accountable those who authorized, those who legally sanctioned and those who implemented the torture policies of one of the darkest periods in our nation’s history. What is at stake is nothing less than our democracy.
Thank you to Colonel Vandeveld for being a patriot and standing up for the United States. You are in very good company, sir.
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June 18th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Sounds more like he looking for a job with a prestigious law firm , in New York or Washington.
Knowing that his military background won’t help him with these rich and liberal law firms .
He decided to use the ACLU as resume builder. I bet he was approached by the lawyers visiting Gitmo and recruited just like a good soviet operative in the old days. AKA sleeper agent.
So what if he throws some good men under the bus on his way to a six figure partnership, he freaking lawyer so he has no ethics.
June 18th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Sorry Mr, but your fury may be clouding your reasoning. Thogh I strongly agree with your stereotyping of lawyers in general, there are exceptions to every rule, and just reasoning is almost always subjective.
It occurs to me that briskly crucifying anyone that W handed over to them would have insured a long and fruitful legal career for this guy, in or out of the military. After all, he would have become one of the ultimate “Upper Tier Henchmen” for an administration without a moral compass. What prolly got him assigned in the first place was his (and I’m guessing) long record of gung ho patriotism. What the administration prolly didn’t consider was that there exists many SUPER GUNG HO, die for this country type Jarheads (or whatever he was), that would stick by his military training: Honor, Duty, Valor, etc,etc- they all have different but similar traits. All you need on top of this is to be an American who understands history and has a respect for the concept of justice.
Mix those two together, and you have what we see here. How could he not get a job working at any law firm that he wants to anyway? Imagine the degree of perceived honesty that he would bring!
BTW- What do you mean by good men? Except for Bruce willis movies, torturers and good men are mutually exclusive!
June 18th, 2009 at 8:20 am
“Torture is a crime and the United States engaged in it. Those are two indisputable facts…”
This is an odd thing for someone at his rank to state, unless he found these facts.
You would think someone would look into this.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Torture is a word that is so easy tossed out by the opponents of Guantanamo.
Water Boarding was an approved interrogation technique.
Remember the analogy portion from your LSAT :Consensual sex is not rape . As approved interrogations is not torture.
Water-boarding or sleep deprivation is not pleasent.
Is it unpleasant ? Yes , but it was designed to be unpleasant.
Let not convict these men of torture or cry torture when it is not.
After we don’t want to be charge with rape after a night of mutual agreed carnal coupling
It has not been proven. The word torture has become a codeword for anti – Bush and Iraq.
Treez Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Oh so let me get this straight, ya god-damned idiot, waterboarding was torture and punishable by death when the Japanese waterboarded American soldiers in WWII, but when America does it, it’s an “approved interrogation technique”? Go f--- yourself. Better yet, go kill yourself and maybe you can be reincarnated back in the Dark Ages where you obviously belong. Peice of s---.
snarly Reply:
June 18th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Consensual sex is not rape . As approved interrogations is not torture.
WTF? I feel sorry for you if your sex life is the same as approved interrogations.