Thom Hartmann: The French judge has a torture confession from Gitmo
Our nation's commitment to torture under the Bush Administration has not just become a national embarrassment - it's become an international problem. A French Judge announced Tuesday that he wants to visit Gitmo - and personally investigate allegations of torture and rape made by three former French inmates who served time in the facility. He's officially sent a request to U.S. authorities on the matter. The three men making the allegations were arrested back in 2001 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border - then sent to Gitmo where they were tortured for years before being sent back to France to face trial and eventually be released. And earlier this week - a Spanish judge reopened an investigation into Bush Administration war crimes - including torture. And British officials now are investigating a CIA rendition program that may have involved torturing Libyans. So it looks like a decade of war crimes is finally catching up with us.
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Good for Thom for focusing on this shameful issue that is not only not going away, opposition to the US's war crimes is increasing. And will, until the US begins to deal with it itself.
The French Judge is a woman, btw.
http://www.alternet.org/rss/breaking_news/763279/french_judge_seeks__guantanamo_access_over_%27torture%27/
French judge Sophie Clément, is pictured in 2008 in her office in Paris. Clément has requested access to Guantanamo to probe claims by three Frenchmen that they were tortured at the notorious jail.
So now we have a Spanish Court and a French Court and the British demanding justice for their citizens who were held illegally and tortured in Guantanamo. I'm sure there will be more as it has become this government intends to ignore the rule of law wrt war crimes.