Strippping Rumsfeld & Bush of Impunity,

[G_j]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/052805X.shtml

Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity

By Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive

July 2005 Issue

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On March 30, the ACLU wrote a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, urging him "to open an investigation into whether General Ricardo A. Sanchez committed perjury in his sworn testimony."

The problem is, Gonzales may himself have committed perjury in his Congressional testimony this January. According to a March 6 article in The New York Times, Gonzales submitted written testimony that said: "The policy of the United States is not to transfer individuals to countries where we believe they likely will be tortured, whether those individuals are being transferred from inside or outside the United States." He added that he was "not aware of anyone in the executive branch authorizing any transfer of a detainee in violation of that policy."

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But going after Sanchez or Gonzales for perjury is the least of it. Sanchez may be personally culpable for war crimes and torture, according to Human Rights Watch. And Gonzales himself was one of the legal architects of the torture policies. As such, he may have been involved in "a conspiracy to immunize U.S. agents from criminal liability for torture and war crimes under U.S. law," according to Amnesty International’s recent report: "Guantánamo and Beyond: The Continuing Pursuit of Unchecked Executive Power."

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Amnesty International USA has even taken the extraordinary step of calling on officials in other countries to apprehend Bush and Rumsfeld and other high-ranking members of the Administration who have played a part in the torture scandal.

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[MasonJar]

1. AI, how can I help?

[G_j]

2. help the ACLU, they are getting the goods

They have forced the release of many crucial documents. We'd be lost without them.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Just one big happy crime family!

The Texas Mafia!

[Solly Mack]

4. Will they ever be brought to justice?

The embracing of a <coughchokespew> "moral victory", defined as knowing they're guilty, whether they're held accountable or not, is nothing more than feeding the illusion.

The phrase "At least we know the truth" is the surcease of justice...they are the words of someone who has made peace with evil and is now looking for cold comfort in words of absolution.

America WILL get another Bush-like tyrant unless Bush and his cabinet, to include senior military officers, are held accountable for their crimes. ALL their crimes...to include the illegal invasion of Iraq...but certainly not limited to Iraq. Our government has much to answer for...

Anyone that thinks America is better off just moving on should be viewed as part of the problem.

To borrow a quote, "Rot at the core spreads outward"...it's time to remove the whole of the cancer that's killing America.

[TahitiNut]

5. Already posted in E&OA at ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=128293