Prosecuting the Bush administration’s torturers
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
03/23/09
It’s a sign of how much the Bush administration skewed America’s moral compass that we are currently facing the possibility that the only way to bring the torturers to account is through a ‘Nonpartisan Commission Of Inquiry’ — essentially, a toothless truth and reconciliation commission — of the type proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We know that both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder believe that the Bush administration approved the use of torture...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0903j.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
by Andy Worthington
03/23/09
It’s a sign of how much the Bush administration skewed America’s moral compass that we are currently facing the possibility that the only way to bring the torturers to account is through a ‘Nonpartisan Commission Of Inquiry’ — essentially, a toothless truth and reconciliation commission — of the type proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. We know that both President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder believe that the Bush administration approved the use of torture...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0903j.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leahy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
rudkla - 26. Mär, 10:50
