The UN is useless. All they are going to do is talk sternly to us and tell us not to do it again
On Saturday, April 25, 2009, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Manfred Nowak, who serves as a U.N. special rapporteur in Geneva, said > Washington is obligated under the U.N. Convention against Torture to > prosecute U.S. Justice Department officials who wrote memos that > defined torture in the narrowest way in order to justify and > legitimize it, and who assured CIA officials that their use of > questionable tactics was legal. > > "That's exactly what I call complicity or participation" to torture as > defined by the convention, Nowak said at a news conference. "At that > time, every reasonable person would know that waterboarding, for > instance, is torture." > > "If it should turn out ... that the (U.S.) government and its > authorities are not willing to prosecute those where we have enough > evidence that they instigated or committed torture, then there is also > an obligation on all other 145 states" party to the convention to > exercise universal jurisdiction, Nowak said. > > That means countries would have an obligation to arrest the > individuals in question if they were on their soil and extradite them > to the U.S. if Washington gave clear assurances they would bring them > to justice. In the absence of such assurances, it would fall upon the > respective country to take the individuals to court. > > Nowak also said any probe of questionable CIA interrogation tactics > must be independent and have thorough investigative powers. > > "It can be a congressional investigation commission, a special > investigator, but it must be independent and with thorough > investigative powers," Nowak said. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296067 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
