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Call for Investigation and Prosecution of Rumsfeld Et. Al.

Posted By mike On January 10, 2009 @ 1:10 pm In Connect the Dots, Small Foot Print, War Criminals | 1 Comment

It does not matter if George W. Bush issues presidential pardons to the people who carried out torture at his prompting because torture is a [1] crime of universal jurisdiction. (and to his credit, Bush did not issue the torture pardons) A pardon in the US does not prevent an investigation and prosecution for torture, in fact, such a pardon probably hastens the investigation. [2]

For more information about this matter I suggest listening to the Terry Gross interview of [3] Philippe Sands on Fresh Air.

If you have questions about how this works in practice you should review the belated, but essential prosecution of Chile’s [4] General Pinochet. If you think these are not serious concerns then you should review [5] Henry Kissinger’s travels abroad as he tries to live his life without prosecution for his work in Vietnam.

 

Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Yoo, Addington, and others in the departing Bush administration will be the targets of investigation and prosecution for their actions with torture.

[6] clipped from [7] www.tortureteam.com

Torture Team web site banner image
On December 2, 2002 the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld,
signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen
techniques of interrogation - techniques that defied international
definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized the controversial
interrogation practices that later migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan,
Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, as part of the policy of extraordinary
rendition.

Photo of book cover, UK edition

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URLs in this post:
[1] crime of universal jurisdiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_jurisdiction
[2] Image: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB212/index.htm
[3] Philippe Sands on Fresh Air: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99061358
[4] General Pinochet: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB212/index.htm
[5] Henry Kissinger’s travels abroad: http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2001/01/20010123_a_main.asp
[6] Image: http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/
[7] www.tortureteam.com: http://www.tortureteam.com/
[8] Image: http://clipmarks.com/share/CEB85EF5-6E5D-45D3-A4FD-3577E2CF1FF6/blog/

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