Bush, Rumsfeld should be pursued for torture: UN rapporteur

[sabra]

Source: AFP

BERLIN (AFP) — The UN's special torture rapporteur called on the US Tuesday to pursue former president George W. Bush and defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.

"Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation" to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany's ZDF television Tuesday evening.

He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required "all means, particularly penal law" to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.

"We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of interrogation were intentionally ordered by Rumsfeld," against detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nowak said.

"But obviously the highest authorities in the United States were aware of this," added Nowak, who authored a UN investigation report on the Guantanamo prison.

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[Solly Mack]

1. 'bout fucking time

"Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation" to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld"

[Vincardog]

2. 'bout fucking time

[Solly Mack]

3. I thought I had double posted for a second there

:)

[Vincardog]

7. No you just said it all.

[htuttle]

4. I think that language means that if we don't do anything about it...

...it would fall into the realm of being prosecutable by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

[OnyxCollie]

'bout fucking time

[snappyturtle]

5. K&R YES!!!!!!!!!! nt

[OnyxCollie]

6. K&R.

The caption says "Ronald Rumsfeld".

[proReality]

8. Don't let Cheney off the hook! n/t

[Bette Noir]

9. I had a theory that Obama was playing coy about prosecuting

in order not to inspire Bush to issue pre-emptive pardons. I hope I was right.

[Mnemosyne]

12. Same here, Bette. I have "prayed" that he's been playing his cards

close to the vest.

President Obama, OMG that felt great to type!, is a brilliant man, an amazing human being and a Constitutional lawyer, exactly the type of man we needed now! :woohoo:

Hope springs, finally, in my heart! :hug: :fistbump: :hi: :toast:

[kenichol]

10. Yes nt

[Mnemosyne]

13. Welcome on this historic day, kenichol!

What a beautiful day! :hi:

[Soylent Brice]

11. please oh please oh please oh please...

[northernlights]

14. don't forget that rolling corpse

cheney!

Obama said Holder will follow the facts where they take him.

We know the facts. We know where they lead. And a smart person doesn't announce to a criminal that they intend to pursue...they just quietly follow the trail until the time is right...

[Titonwan]

15. boutus fucki timus

I thought I'd get all latin like (home made latin, kinda like road runner (fastus kickassus). Dick Cheney too. ALL of them, as a matter of fact.

[Usrename]

16. I hope he feels the walls starting to close in on him.

He probably doesn't, he's so ignorant.

:grr:

[struggle4progress]

17. Our international credibility is still at stake