It has been revealed that Pres. Obama stonewalled an inquiry

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by Spain into one george w. bush for the crime of torture which he admitted in his book that he ordered.

Does President Obama have any right or any business interfering in the investigation by another soveriegn country into the crimes of george w. bush and his henchmen?

Edited to add link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9669039&mesg_id=9669039

[qazplm]

1. how is he interfering?

He raised an issue. Spain was free to do what it wanted.

[Bluebear]

3. lol

[Angry Dragon]

6. Then you go in the front door

and not use back door tactics

[EFerrari]

7. A bunch of articles in this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9663640

They threatened Spain. They tried to get it shut down. They tried to manipulate the judge and the prosecutors in the case.

And that's just the Bush torture case. They also did the same thing with the investigation into the shelling death of a Spanish journalist at the Palestine Hotel and an investigation of the wrongful rendition and torture of another individual.

Not good.

[Puregonzo1188]

2. Who the fuck voted yes?

[HipChick]

4. Goverments do it all the time...US denied UK request....US tried to intervene in Scotland

Lockerbie bomber's


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8171730/WikiLeaks-Washington-turned-down-Gordon-Browns-plea-for-hacker-Gary-McKinnon-to-serve-sentence-in-UK.html

[Angry Dragon]

8. Question: Does that make it right??

[HipChick]

10. morality doesn't come into it..

It's been going for so long, I don't know what people think was going to change..

[Angry Dragon]

13. Then why even care then to vote, we are going down the tubes

so why even get worked up about it. Let the republicans have their way.
At least we will get stabbed in the front and know who is doing it.

Less stress that way.

[Luminous Animal]

9. Many in Spain are pissed off...

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Expertos/penales/creen/fiscalia/vulnero/ley/tratos/EE/UU/elpepuesp/20101202elpepunac_1/Tes&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhgUYOO4wiaoMZWBNzM6AmAjblHc9Q

"Obscenity," according to Leopoldo Torres, one of the lawyers of the relatives of Couso case. "A serious violation of national sovereignty and independence of the judiciary", according to the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (ALA), which defines " patronage and serfdom

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11. Funny how the U.S. will go after another country's leaders in a red-hot second. But let

another country come after one of ours and it's "Oooohhhh, no! Can't touch this!"

[leftstreet]

5. HELL no!

[mmonk]

12. Not really.

The Spanish should be incensed at the threat to the sovereignty of their courts.