{4/21/09}Team 44 has made it perfectly clear through its chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, that the Regime's Torture Six {4/14/09} will not be prosecuted by the United States despite its international legal obligation to do so. Under the UN Convention Against Torture, the United States has committed itself to investigate and prosecute all cases in which credible evidence of torture is found. It will not be the first time the US has violated a treaty obligation. The indigenous people of America know full well the value of the US government's promises. 44 is scheduled to travel to the Langley, Virginia headquarters of the CIA to reassure nervous agents who relied on the Regime's questionable legal rational to justify torture of detainees that they will not be prosecuted for their actions. The legal implication of the administration's de facto grant of immunity means that the US will in all likelihood ignore Spain's request for extradition should one be made.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Protecting the Torture Six
Update: Obama has done a quick about face on the question of prosecuting former Regime officials for ordering torture. Rahm Emanuel's statement that former officials would not be prosecuted went over like a lead balloon, so his boss took the cue to reverse course. The latest revelations about the torture policy reveal high officials in the Regime hell bent on extracting information about an "Al Qaida connection" to the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. They never found one, despite a litnany of torture techniques straight out of the Middle Ages. The only way the United States will regain its tattered international reputation is if it investigates and prosecutes those leaders responsible for the most ill-considered foreign policy in our history as an independent nation.
{4/21/09}Team 44 has made it perfectly clear through its chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, that the Regime's Torture Six {4/14/09} will not be prosecuted by the United States despite its international legal obligation to do so. Under the UN Convention Against Torture, the United States has committed itself to investigate and prosecute all cases in which credible evidence of torture is found. It will not be the first time the US has violated a treaty obligation. The indigenous people of America know full well the value of the US government's promises. 44 is scheduled to travel to the Langley, Virginia headquarters of the CIA to reassure nervous agents who relied on the Regime's questionable legal rational to justify torture of detainees that they will not be prosecuted for their actions. The legal implication of the administration's de facto grant of immunity means that the US will in all likelihood ignore Spain's request for extradition should one be made.
{4/21/09}Team 44 has made it perfectly clear through its chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, that the Regime's Torture Six {4/14/09} will not be prosecuted by the United States despite its international legal obligation to do so. Under the UN Convention Against Torture, the United States has committed itself to investigate and prosecute all cases in which credible evidence of torture is found. It will not be the first time the US has violated a treaty obligation. The indigenous people of America know full well the value of the US government's promises. 44 is scheduled to travel to the Langley, Virginia headquarters of the CIA to reassure nervous agents who relied on the Regime's questionable legal rational to justify torture of detainees that they will not be prosecuted for their actions. The legal implication of the administration's de facto grant of immunity means that the US will in all likelihood ignore Spain's request for extradition should one be made.