Posted on 04/24/2009 3:57:46 PM PDT by nobama08
VIENNA (AP) - The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy said Friday. Earlier this week, President Barack Obama left the door open to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terror-suspect interrogations. He had previously absolved CIA officers from prosecution.
Manfred Nowak, who serves as a U.N. special rapporteur in Geneva, said Washington is obligated under the U.N. Convention against Torture to prosecute U.S. Justice Department officials who wrote memos that defined torture in the narrowest way in order to justify and legitimize it, and who assured CIA officials that their use of questionable tactics was legal.
"That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as defined by the convention, Nowak said at a news conference. "At that time, every reasonable person would know that waterboarding, for instance, is torture."
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Note the use of “questionable” without identifying just who is doing the questioning. Which tribunals have sat on this question?
Over my dead body.
Someone needs to start a little of the real human rights abuses going on in this world and send it to this POS.
This administration won’t do it, but the U.N. needs to be defunded, we need to pull out of it, and kick it out of our nation.
Can we volunteer to have our “torture” cases heard after Iran, Cuba, China, Syria, Russia, Zimbabwe and North Korea?
Surely they are also under investigation...
We have been saying that for years. If it didn’t happen under Bush, it ain’t never gonna happen!
Manfred Nowak, who serves as a U.N. special rapporteur in Geneva, said Washington is obligated under the U.N. Convention against Torture to prosecute U.S. Justice Department officials
bwhahaaha MANFRED...
YOU are a LULU....
I have no idea what a “rapporteur” is. Is it like Lil Wayne or something?
IMO, Bush was much more of a globalist than people gave him credit for. His open border policy for most of his administration reflected this. His Department of Education funding also reflected this, since it’s the body that implements the U.N. U.N.E.S.C.O. education goals inside the United States.
If we were to get a decent Conservative in the White House, and a majority of Republicans in Congress, we could probably make some headway, but I would agree not until.
Hey, Manfred, up yours!
He’s just another sugar plum fairy; Columbia educated, of course. Peculiar people like this usually are Ivy Leaguers, even if they speak with peculiar accents from the homelands that they share with some, should we say, interesting perps.
additional:
U.N. torture envoy: U.S. must prosecute Bush lawyers
Associated Press | April 24 2009 | VERONIKA OLEKSYN
Posted on 04/24/2009 9:27:36 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives
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