Posted on 12/10/2014 7:33:48 AM PST by Rusty0604
ACLU calls for special prosecutor on torture
How would prosecution of officials responsible for torture work? The ACLU is arguing that the justice department should appoint a special prosecutor:
To ensure that the investigation of the torture program is comprehensive and insulated from political interference, Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a special prosecutor from within the Justice Department and transfer to that special prosecutor all of his authority to investigate and prosecute crimes relating to the program. A special prosecutor would be able to make prosecutorial decisions without having to seek the attorney general’s permission.
Lawyers for 9/11 suspects demand access to documents
“Cheryl Bormann can finally say the CIA hung her one-legged client from his wrists.”
That’s how Guardian national security editor Spencer Ackerman begins our report on “How the torture report could unravel prosecution of alleged 9/11 masterminds”:
By torturing the five men now being tried in the 9/11 military commission, the CIA may have jeopardized the US government’s ability to seek the death penalty, and perhaps jeopardized the case entirely.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
hung by the wrists OH NO.....
the neck would have been far more appropriate???
I think we need a special prosecutor for Lois Lerner and Hitlery Benghazi Klintoon, before we need one for the CIA, doncha think?
I agree. We should prosecute anyone associated with releasing this POS document.
I'm calling for the prosecution of those who released this CLASSIFIED material and I hope it comes back to bit Feinstein in her wrinkled commie ass!
Won’t happen. Obola knows that if they prosecute human rights abusers, he would be at the top of the list.
blah blah blah
They want Bush and Cheney.
OUTGOING attorney general Eric Holder...
Obama just kills people with drones instead of trying to get information out of them.
Anything to neuter our counter-intelligence agencies and jeopardize the USA at any cost, right RATs?
That was so long ago and the scandals have already been discussed. WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE AT THIS TIME ANYHOW....
But the CIA interrogations of 2003! This is breaking news!
One word . . . drones.
Who couldn’t see this coming....theyve done it to our soldiers why not the CIA.
Just a preview of the 2016 Democrat Party platform:
Burn this b*tch down!
Must be time for Barry Soetoro to go on another fawning “apology tour”.
“How would prosecution of officials responsible for torture work?”
Well, if those officials won’t ‘talk’, maybe they could torture them to get a confession.
I don’t believe there’s any way to prosecute.
There was an official DoJ memo saying that the techniques were legal. That provides all the cover those involve need.
The folks at DoJ were providing an official interpretation, but did not participate in the use of the techniques. So theyre clear as well.
Leadership could only be prosecuted if they were shown as directing, or unduly influencing the interpretation provided in the memo, or in directing the intelligence officers to go beyond it’s scope.
There might be a crimes against humanity/war crimes angle (Nurnbug “following orders” precedents), but there’s a huge difference between summary executions, beatings, tearing out fingernails, hooking sensitive body parts up to jumper cables, and playing loud music or squirting water up someone’s nose. The accused could make a solid case that there was a reasonable expectation that the DoJ memo was within the boundaries ofvlaw and international convention.
The ACLU may be a bunch of nutjobs, but they do have good lawyers who would know all of these things. My conclusion is that they’re screaming “Prosecute!” to get themselves into the press and to help with fundraising.
Lets see...prosecute someone for committing a crime that wasn’t a crime when it was committed but you would like to call it a crime because it fits your warped ideas of society...that’s the way to go...if you are a Marxist. Room 101 for you CIA agents. Room 101.
Agreed, but I don’t think the currant Department of Justice cares about justice.
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