Poland Charges Ex-Spy Chief over Involvement in Bush Torture Program
Unlike President Barack Obama, who has refused to prosecute American intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, leaders in Poland have charged their former top spymaster for helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) imprison detainees in their country.
Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former head of Polands intelligence service, faces charges of violating international law by unlawfully depriving prisoners of their liberty while allowing the CIA to hold and interrogate detainees at a secret base near Szymany Airport, north of Warsaw. Siemiatkowski was the intelligence chief from 2002 to 2004, the period when the CIA prison in Poland was in operation.
The New York Times reported that all three of the CIA prisoners who are known to have been waterboarded spent time in Poland, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is charged in the 2000 bombing of the American destroyer Cole; and Abu Zubaydah, who ran a terrorist camp and facilitated militants travel.
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We try to treat our Constitution seriously and try not to forget the fact that there was a manifest violation of the Polish Constitution within the countrys borders, Adam Bodnar, vice president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, based in Warsaw, told The New York Times. He added, I remember the lessons of constitutionality given by the Americans in the early 90s, always saying to us, you have to create a new constitution and every action by state authorities must have limits. Poland has just learned this lesson well.
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Uncle Joe
(58,107 posts)Thanks for the thread, jake.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)If their war criminals and banksters were prosecuted at home.