Nadler Grills The Torture Team With An Eye To Prosecute

[maddezmom]

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Three of the four witnesses (all lawyers) testifying before the committee advanced the familiar theme that lawyers in the White House, Office of the Vice President, and the Pentagon developed a common plan to do away with the protections that the Geneva Conventions and other laws and treaties provide foreigners who are in U.S. custody.


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Yet Nadler raised the possibility of criminal prosecutions in the U.S., asking law professor and National Lawyers Guild president Marjorie Cohn whether the Military Commissions Act does in fact provide members of the administration with immunity from criminal prosecution.



"No," said Cohn, who described U.S. laws that prohibit torture or conspiracy to commit torture.



"How long," Nadler asked, "is the statute of limitations on those laws?"



"The statute of limitations," Cohn said, "is never."

more:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lou-dubose/nadler-grills-the-torture_b_101582.html

[WhiteTara]

1. Yes. Good news

may they all rot in jail

[Taverner]

2. Ahhh Jerold - Love ya man!

I've always liked him

He's the NY Congressman who takes his job seriously, and has (for the most part) been on the right side of history

I think he voted against Iraq too...

[dipsydoodle]

3. "is never"

Quite right.

[seemslikeadream]

4. That's right and Philippe Sands said

If Congress doesnt take care of this torture team others outside the U.S. will


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=204181&mesg_id=204181

[classysassy]

5. Threats

stop the threats and jail those criminals.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. My new favorite word

Bush and "the boys" in Never Never land.....