Toma
12-15-2014, 12:01 PM
Man, Bush and Cheney doing time? I could die a happy man.
'There is an almost criminal gang in our government's security agencies which is not subject to democratic accountability of any kind.'
former vice president of the United States Dick Cheney told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday that he'd "do it again in a minute."
And what about President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush? Said Cheney: "He authorized it. He Approved it."
And what is the "it"? The torture of other human beings.
However, nearly a week after the partial release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture—despite a full-court media press from Cheney and others defending how the U.S. government employed gross human rights violations in the name of national security—the new calls for prosecutions into these admitted crimes continue.
For its part, the ACLU has put forth a five-point plan for accountability which includes appointment of a special prosecutor.
In a new op-ed over the weekend, Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU's deputy legal director said the case for prosecuting those behind the torture program, though long overdue, has never been better.
"The argument for the appointment of a special prosecutor is straightforward," Jaffer argued. "The CIA adopted interrogation methods that have long been understood to constitute torture. Those methods were used against more than a hundred prisoners, including many – at least 29 – whom the CIA itself now recognizes should never have been detained at all."
s part of its renewed effort to push for prosecutions, the Center for Constitutional Rights has put forth a petition calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute the high-level government officials responsible for the torture. Appearing alongside social activist Frances Fox Piven on Melissa Harris-Perry's weekend show on MSNBC, CCR's executive director Vince Warren said we should not be having a conversation about whether torture "worked" or not, because torture—just like slavery and genocide—is among the "highest forms of crimes that people can commit against each other."
"This is why we need to be thinking about prosecution," Warren continued. "The only way to prevent torture and things like this from happening, is to prosecute the people who have done this. This isn't a question of values. This is a question of criminality."
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/15/calls-torture-team-prosecutions-persist-cheney-brags-id-do-it-again
'There is an almost criminal gang in our government's security agencies which is not subject to democratic accountability of any kind.'
former vice president of the United States Dick Cheney told NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday that he'd "do it again in a minute."
And what about President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush? Said Cheney: "He authorized it. He Approved it."
And what is the "it"? The torture of other human beings.
However, nearly a week after the partial release of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on CIA torture—despite a full-court media press from Cheney and others defending how the U.S. government employed gross human rights violations in the name of national security—the new calls for prosecutions into these admitted crimes continue.
For its part, the ACLU has put forth a five-point plan for accountability which includes appointment of a special prosecutor.
In a new op-ed over the weekend, Jameel Jaffer, the ACLU's deputy legal director said the case for prosecuting those behind the torture program, though long overdue, has never been better.
"The argument for the appointment of a special prosecutor is straightforward," Jaffer argued. "The CIA adopted interrogation methods that have long been understood to constitute torture. Those methods were used against more than a hundred prisoners, including many – at least 29 – whom the CIA itself now recognizes should never have been detained at all."
s part of its renewed effort to push for prosecutions, the Center for Constitutional Rights has put forth a petition calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute the high-level government officials responsible for the torture. Appearing alongside social activist Frances Fox Piven on Melissa Harris-Perry's weekend show on MSNBC, CCR's executive director Vince Warren said we should not be having a conversation about whether torture "worked" or not, because torture—just like slavery and genocide—is among the "highest forms of crimes that people can commit against each other."
"This is why we need to be thinking about prosecution," Warren continued. "The only way to prevent torture and things like this from happening, is to prosecute the people who have done this. This isn't a question of values. This is a question of criminality."
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/15/calls-torture-team-prosecutions-persist-cheney-brags-id-do-it-again