Spanish prosecutors will recommend against opening an investigation into whether Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects, that country's attorney general said Thursday.
Attorney General Candido Conde-Pumpido told reporters that the case was without merit because the officials were not present when the alleged torture took place and that a trial would turn Spain's National Court into "a plaything" for political ends.
The intention had been to target six officials whose advice and legal opinions cleared the way for the use of torture at Guantanamo Bay: former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, former vice presidential chief of staff David Addington, Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, and Pentagon lawyer William Haynes.
"If one is dealing with a crime of mistreatment of prisoners of war, the complaint should go against those who physically carried it out," Conde-Pumpido stated.
"If there is a reason to file a complaint against these people, it should be done before local courts with jurisdiction, in other words in the United States."
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On a side note: Investigating judge Baltasar Garzon has the final say on whether to proceed or shelve the case.
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"If one is dealing with a crime of mistreatment of prisoners of war, the complaint should go against those who physically carried it out," Conde-Pumpido stated.Really?? That's not what they said at the Nuremberg Trials...remember this?
The indictments were for:
1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
3. War crimes
4. Crimes against humanity
Justice will catch up with all of them. It's now for lawyers to fight it out. But now that Obama has protected the CIA the rest of the Bush Adminisration is left out in the cold. Look for lawsuits to fly and without help from the US Govenment.
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