11/18th 7pm St Paul, MN: “Legal and Medical Impunity for Torture: From Nuremberg to California”

[annm4peace]

Plan to attend "Legal and Medical Impunity for Torture: from Nuremberg to California," a panel this Thursday evening, Nov. 18, 7-9 pm at William Mitchell College of Law, 875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul.

The panel is open to the public. Admission is $10 (free to Mitchell students). Registration : www.worldwithoutgenocide.org/registerTorture

The panelists:
·Marjorie Cohn, past president of the National Lawyers Guild and professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, author, The United States and Torture, “Torture and U.S. Law”

·Dr. Steven H. Miles, Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, author, Oath Betrayed: America’s Torture Doctors, “From Nuremberg to California: Combating Torture through the Law”

·Ms. Margot DeWilde, a survivor of Auschwitz and medical experiments supervised by Dr. Joseph Mengele, “A Survivor Speaks”

·Sen. Sandy Pappas, “Introducing Anti-torture Legislation in Minnesota”

http://www.wmitchell.edu/theDocket/article.asp?ID=6119


Why is this panel in Minnesota ?


One of Bush's lawyers during his Presidency who said forget the Geneva Conventions teaches at St. Thomas Law School,
Prof. Robert Delahunty (co-authored with John Yoo) http://tortureaccountability.org/robert_delahunty/



http://www.minnpost.com/community_voices/2009/09/01/11234/the_robert_delahunty_torture-memo_controversy_at_st_thomas



And John Radsan who was legal council for CIA during Bush and ok'd the destroying of CIA interrogation tapes teaches at William Mitchell Law School where the event will be held.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/14/AR2008101403331_pf.html


He is often on news shows giving his opinion even though he was the legal counsel during the CIA.
"Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2007 with former CIA and FBI insiders and other experts on torture explained that it was
Radsan's job as a CIA lawyer to explore the boundaries of what could be done":

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Dragonfli]

2. K&R

[tb1988]

3. If it had been U.S. soldiers who had been tortured,

we would never hear the end of it it. Shameful that U.S. torture is not much of a concern here. The media has really downplayed it. Hope there's a good turnout at the panel.