| By Ken - Jan 21st, 2009 at 12:32 pm EST |
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Will some of Obama's picks turn out to be moles for the previous discredited and criminal Bush administration?
Glenn Greenwald writes about the suspension of the kangaroo court called military commissions at GitMo:
This is only a first step and a temporary one at that. Subsequent actions that the Obama administration is clearly considering could severely undermine both the symbolic and substantive value of this act, particularly if they go and create new "national security courts" of the kind aggressively advocated by newly-appointed Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal, which would likely enable coerced evidence to be used in order to obtain convictions of accused Terrorists. Even with Obama's order yesterday, many of the most vital questions surrounding the closing of Guantanamo remain unanswered.
Why do I say criminal because the laws against torture were broken. Furthermore it is not a matter of choice for President Obama to not investigate. He has a legal obligation to investigate.
Glenn writes:
Harper's Scott Horton notes that the leading U.N. official in charge of torture conventions, such as the Convention Against Torture (signed by Ronald Reagan and ratified by the U.S. Senate), just stated that the Obama administration is obligated by that treaty and by international law to criminally investigate Bush officials for torture....
Rachel Maddow interviews law professor Johnathon Turley:
Rachel Maddow: If the administration has confirmed that they tortured people -- and they have, they have used the "t" word; they have described what they have done, which is recognized as torture, it is something for which we have prosecuted people -- are we literally looking at the possibility where administration officials from this administration cannot travel abroad to the other 145 countries that have signed the torture treaties because they might get arrested?
Jonathan Turley: Most certainly. The status of George Bush is not that different from Augusto Pinochet. They've both been accused of running a torture program. Outside of this country, there is not this ambiguity about what to do about a war crime. There are four treaties that make this an international violation. So if you go abroad, and try to travel, most people abroad are going to view you not as "former President George Bush" -- they're going to view you as a current war criminal.
Rachel Maddow: And they're going to view us as an outlaw regime for not arresting him on our own soil.
I have argued that Bush like Pinochet will become a wanted man throughout the world.













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