MPs back torture damages plan
BBC News [UK]
08/10/09
Torture victims should be able to sue foreign governments in the UK courts, a committee of MPs and peers have said. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called on the government to take an international lead, saying the plan would help rehabilitate victims. Minsters have argued that they are bound by a state immunity convention and have suggested the move could cause international tensions. But the committee said practical concerns were of secondary importance...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8194387.stm
Tortured logic
Salon
by Digby
08/10/09
We weren’t sure he was going to even go this far, but according to news reports over the weekend, Attorney General Holder has decided on a ‘narrow’ investigation into torture. In fact, it’s so narrow that it won’t investigate any of the torture that was authorized by DOJ functionary John Yoo at all. Using inverted pretzel logic, they are apparently going to go after those who failed to follow John Yoo’s directives. For instance, according to the LA Times, Holder will not investigate allegations of waterboarding in themselves, but rather if they failed to properly follow their waterboarding instructions to the letter …
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/10/torture/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo
08/10/09
Torture victims should be able to sue foreign governments in the UK courts, a committee of MPs and peers have said. The Joint Committee on Human Rights has called on the government to take an international lead, saying the plan would help rehabilitate victims. Minsters have argued that they are bound by a state immunity convention and have suggested the move could cause international tensions. But the committee said practical concerns were of secondary importance...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8194387.stm
Tortured logic
Salon
by Digby
08/10/09
We weren’t sure he was going to even go this far, but according to news reports over the weekend, Attorney General Holder has decided on a ‘narrow’ investigation into torture. In fact, it’s so narrow that it won’t investigate any of the torture that was authorized by DOJ functionary John Yoo at all. Using inverted pretzel logic, they are apparently going to go after those who failed to follow John Yoo’s directives. For instance, according to the LA Times, Holder will not investigate allegations of waterboarding in themselves, but rather if they failed to properly follow their waterboarding instructions to the letter …
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/10/torture/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=waterboarding
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Eric+Holder
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Yoo
rudkla - 11. Aug, 09:49
