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Two legal rights groups on Thursday asked the United Nations to investigate allegations that Spanish and U.S. officials collaborated to quash criminal probes into whether the Bush administration authorized illegal killings and torture of terrorism suspects.
The request, made to the U.N.'s special rapporteur for judicial independence, accused the United States of interfering with Spain's justice system in three different criminal cases. The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights asked that the U.N. demand tha
The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
The move by the administration is the latest effort to deal with the treatment of those taken into custody in the war on terror.
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News World news CIA US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout
US officials have provided fresh details about Raymond Davis, the CIA agent at the centre of a diplomatic stand-off in Pakistan, including confirmation that he had worked for the private security contractor Xe, formerly known as Blackwater. They also disclosed for the first time that he had been providing security for a CIA team tracking militants.
Davis was attached to the CIA's Global Response Staff, whose duties include protecting case officers when they meet with sources. He was familiarising himself with a sensitive area of Lahore on the day he shot dead two Pakistanis.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
Bush will never go to court. Unless there were a revolution in the US. No countries President, Prime Minister ot Leader for life ever goes to court unless their government is overthrown.
And if they tried Bush in absentia, they would have to try Carter, Bush Sr, Clinton and Obama as well.
Originally posted by TDawgRex
reply to post by Corruption Exposed
I've googled what I'm refering to, but am coming up with nada. If memory serves me correct though, back in the mid-2000's, wasn't there some US agents who were put on trial in Spain for war crimes? If I remember correctly, they were convicted in absentia, but after that...I have heard nothing.