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It’s Time to Investigate and Prosecute the Torturers

Posted By mike On March 16, 2009 @ 10:11 pm In News, Politics, Connect the Dots, War Criminals | 1 Comment

The Red Cross makes very clear what most of us already knew: the Bush administration tortured prisoners.

It doesn’t matter who was tortured or why. It doesn’t matter if the torturers want to claim that they saved lives through information gained through torture. What matters is that the United States has a legal commitment to prosecute torturers.

You want to make the United States a safer place? Show the rest of the world that we hold criminal conduct to account. This is not the stuff for a truth and reconciliation show, this is criminal conduct of the highest type.

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Red Cross report renews call for probe of Bush era

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A leaked Red Cross report on CIA “torture” of detainees offers fresh ammunition to demands that officials from the Bush administration be prosecuted for their conduct, rights groups have revealed.
The abuse described by the detainees, including being slammed into walls and deprived of sleep and solid food for days, “constituted torture,” the Red Cross document said.
As a signatory to the UN convention banning torture, the United States may be legally obliged to carry out a probe of former officials, Mendelson said.
“And there’s certainly enough evidence out there to warrant the appointment of an independent prosecutor to look into criminal responsibility for the torture of prisoners in CIA custody,” Jaffer said.
“I think there is enough evidence in the public domain to warrant a much more serious investigation than has been conducted thus far,” Jameel Jaffer, director of ACLU’s national security program, told AFP.

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