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House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey [.pdf] Friday requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War Crimes Act when they allowed interrogators to use brutal interrogation methods against detainees suspected of ties to terrorist organizations.
The letter, signed by 56 Congressional lawmakers, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, who is leading an investigation into the administration’s interrogation practices, says the International Committee of the Red Cross conducted an independent investigation of interrogation practices at Guantanamo Bay and “documented several instances of acts of torture against detainees, including soaking a prisoner’s hand in alcohol and lighting it on fire, subjecting a prisoner to sexual abuse and forcing a prisoner to eat a baseball.”
“We believe that these events alone warrant action, but within the last month additional information has surfaced that suggests the fact that not only did top administration officials meet in the White House and approve of the use of enhanced techniques including waterboarding against detainees, but that President Bush was aware of, and approved of the meetings taking place,” the letter, dated June 6, says. The Justice Department is reviewing the letter, a spokesman said.
However, Mukasey has defended the administration’s interrogation policies, and with seven month to go before a new president is sworn into office, it appears unlikely that Mukasey will act on the Democrats’ request.
House Democrats Want Bush Administration Investigated for War Crimes
Jason Leopold, The Public Record, Sunday, June 08, 2008
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…at the pinnacle of a law career?
that anyone could graduate from an accredited law school and not have, at the very least, respect for our Constitution; but this administration has brought them all out of hiding. It’s disgraceful perhaps the most disgraceful thing Bushco has done–bringing the utter corruption of our lawyers into sharp focus. It isn’t that they should know better, it is that they do; because you simply can not graduate without passing Constitutional Law.
a big reason they got rid of Alberto Gonzales?
Not much of an improvement if you asked me.
A strong country that is strong because of its principles.
A country respected and admired by other countries and their people.
George W. Bush has so trashed these goals.
Mukassey is just part of the package.
Young people don’t understand all this.
We adults should.
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Boy …just wait until Obama is president and all the new Democratic Senator get a opportunity to investigate these war criminals!!!!!
Won’t that be great?
I….Don’t…..Think…..So…….