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jakeXT

(10,575 posts)
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 12:20 PM Apr 2012

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 Poland’s 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 country’s 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.”

http://www.allgov.com/US_and_the_World/ViewNews/Poland_Charges_Ex_Spy_Chief_over_Involvement_in_Bush_Torture_Program_120404

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Poland Charges Ex-Spy Chief over Involvement in Bush Torture Program (Original Post) jakeXT Apr 2012 OP
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Apr 2012 #1
The US would have a much better reputation abroad PDJane Apr 2012 #2
We wouldn't have time for illegal wars if we were doing that, Silly. nt DCKit Apr 2012 #3

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
2. The US would have a much better reputation abroad
Wed Apr 4, 2012, 12:25 PM
Apr 2012

If their war criminals and banksters were prosecuted at home.

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