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US memo drafters were complicit in torture, UN torture monitor says
Earth Times
Friday, April 24, 2009
United States officials who drafted policies on harsh interrogation tactics for terrorism suspects should be prosecuted as accomplices in torture, the United Nation’s monitor on torture Manfred Nowak said Friday in Vienna.
Nowak was reacting to the announcement by US President Barack Obama on Tuesday that he would let Attorney General Eric Holder, the chief of the the US Justice Department, decide whether to investigate those who drafted the legal memos during the Bush administration.
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture criticized Obama last week for his decision not to prosecute CIA interrogators who justified their techniques with these memos.
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“If you read them, and then see in what kind of detail specific torture methods such as water boarding, long-term isolation, stress positions, et cetera have been described there,” Nowak said about the memos, “it kind of reminded me of the criminal procedure codes that were common in Europe during the Middle Ages.”
Talking to reporters, Nowak argued that the US is bound to the UN Convention against torture, which mandates countries to prosecute acts of complicity or participation in torture, such as drafting the policies.
The Austrian human rights expert lauded Obama for abolishing the interrogation techniques and closing the Guantanamo prison camp and said he trusted the president to start a full investigation.
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April 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
From the above article:
“The Austrian human rights expert lauded Obama for abolishing the interrogation techniques and closing the Guantanamo prison camp and said he trusted the president to start a full investigation.”
This is precisely why a full investigation *won’t* be started and why the torture techniques will *not* be abolished, because, like brainwashed cult members, people continue blindly believe that Obama will do what he says *despite* all the lies he’s already told and *despite* all the promises he’s already broken.
The more the masses live in chronic denial as to just how badly they’re being deceived and betrayed, the more the criminal elite pulling Obama’s strings know they can do whatever the hell they want while laughably insisting all the while (through their mouthpiece, Obama) that they’re doing the exact opposite.
April 24th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Let’s go surfin’ now
Everybody’s learnin’ how
Do some waterboardin’ with me!
April 25th, 2009 at 3:49 am
The Washington Post had a photograph of a “Judge” Bybee in this morning’s paper. Bybee wrote some of the torture memo’s. We ought to thank the Post for running his photo, at least now we know who some of these HUMAN RIGHT VIOLATORS are.
If the C.I.A. is so proud of the actions of their agents, surely they won’t mind having the photo’s and names of these torturer’s published in all major newspapers across America. Oh yeah, lets not forget the address’s of these people. After all,if their so proud of there actions, why not let the whole world know who they are and where they live.
April 25th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I remember the Nuremburg trials of Nazi judges whom wrote legal opinions later justified by their Nazi masters for their war crimes, and how this mirrors the use today with Bush/Cheney as legal justifications for violating not only the Geneva Conventions treaty, but our own US 8th amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment! Either we owe these Nazi judges a pardon, appology or we do not and we were right then, their opinions resulted in war crimes being committed by their Nazi masters and therefore the three attorneys and one now a federal judge are similiarly guilty and ought to be held accountable just as we did these Nazi judges!
April 25th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Another tid bit of history, a infamous Japanese radio propagandist nick named Tokyo Rose was arrested post world war II and charged with crimes, she died in 2006 was later pardoned, due to she was one of many whom the Japanese used under the monicker of “Tokyo Rose”, on radio by Japanese regime, one might draw a analogy today to Sean Hannity, Bill Oreilly, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham as modern day versions for their culpability in advocating for torture, war crimes for their party the GOP/Republicans?
May 6th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Blogs like this are why I use the internet.