Monday, March 02, 2009



CIA Director Leon Panetta has said the United States will continue to engage in extraordinary rendition but will use it rarely and will be more selective about the countries prisoners are sent to. Some of the prisoners who have been transferred by the United States to other countries claim they were tortured.

The memo on extraordinary rendition, written by Jay S. Bybee, then assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel, further said that prisoners held outside the United States were not protected by U.S. laws against torture, nor against an international treaty banning torture.

The Bybee memo also said that a 1998 law making it U.S. policy not to hand over prisoners to country where they may be tortured was invalid because it unconstitutionally interferes with presidential powers.

However, the possibility that prisoners might be tortured after a transfer to another government outside the criminal justice system appeared to be on the minds of George W. Bush's White House lawyers. The memo suggested ways to U.S. officials could transfer prisoners to countries where they may indeed be tortured without making them legally liable for their treatment.

"To fully shield our personnel from criminal liability, it is important that the United States not enter in an agreement with a foreign country, explicitly or implicitly, to transfer a detainee to that country for the purpose of having the individual tortured," Bybee wrote.

"So long as the United States doe not intend for a detainee to be tortured post-transfer, however, no criminal liability will attach to a transfer even if the foreign country receiving the detainee does torture him," he wrote.

Jameel Jaffer, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's national security project, said the memo, taken with the others released Monday, shows the White House used the war on terror to claim broad powers.

"These memos were meant to provide the president with a blank check with respect to the rights of not only prisoners overseas but people in the United States as well," he said.

... non solo criminali, ma anche ipocriti ...
... questa storia prova chiaramente ...
... che gli stati uniti ...
... violano i trattati che hanno sottoscritto ...
... e non hanno alcuna intenzione di rispettare la convenzione di ginevra ...
... ne' di rinunciare alla tortura come strumento di persecuzione politica ...
... per cui i paesi NATO che non approvano questi metodi ...
... hanno l'obbligo morale di uscire dalla NATO per protesta ...
... sempre se nei paesi della NATO sia rimasto ...
... un minimo di moralita' e di decenza ...
... e' sorprendente come le chiese ...
... che tanto hanno da dire sulla vita dei non nati ...
... nulla dicono a favore dei vivi ...
... magari hanno la coda di paglia, (inquisizione ?) ...
... o magari sono troppo vigliacchi per opporsi ...
... le chiese ripetono gli errori che successero con il nazismo ...
... forse cio' avviene "di proposito ?" ...
... ci sono solo due possibilita, vili o in malafede ...
... tutte le chiese del mondo ...
... dovrebbero ricordare "giornalmente" e "pubblicamente" agli stati uniti ...
... che usare la "tortura" e' un crimine contrio l' umanita' ...
... non si sente nessuna chiesa accusare l' america apertamente ...
... percio' queste sono chiese di mentecatti senza valore spirituale ...
... il loro silenzio protegge crimini contro l'umanita' ...
... queste chiese non sono degne ...
... ne' di essere chiamate chiese, ne' di essere chiamate religioni ...
... ma sono da considerarsi complici di associazioni a delinquere ...
... come e' infatti la klepto-plutocratica america ...



# posted by intcoex : 7:30 PM




<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

Subscribe to Posts [Atom]