Cheney Can Be Prosecuted for Torture & He KNOWS It

[kpete]

MON SEP 05, 2011 AT 01:49 PM PDT
Cheney Can Be Prosecuted for Torture
byPatriot Daily News Clearinghouse

Cheney knows this. In 2009, Liz Cheney Reveals That Fear Of Prosecution Motivates Dad’s Media Blitz Defending Torture. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/05/1013707/-Cheney-Can-Be-Prosecuted-for-Torture Two years later, Cheney's book is still trying to convince Americans that torture saves lives.

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Thanks to the Bush administration's extension of the limitations period for certain terrorism offenses in 2001, noncapital torture has an 8-year statute of limitations. Thus, the "deadline for indicting Bush administration officials on conspiracy to torture charges would still be years away - January of 2017."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00104.htm

However, if the "if the commission of such offense resulted in, or created a foreseeable risk of, death or serious bodily injury to another person," then "notwithstanding any other law, an indictment may be found or an information instituted at any time without limitation." Thus, Bush and Cheney could be prosecuted at any time during the rest of their lives when the torture predicate is a foreseeable risk of death or serious bodily injury to another person:

Section 2340A prohibits both the substantive act of torture and conspiracy to commit torture. We also know that it is one of the terrorism offenses listed in section 2332(b)(g)(5)(B). Therefore, we know that - pursuant to section 3286(b) - there is no statute of limitations whatsoever on charges against anyone who: (1) committed torture; (2) aided and abetted the commission of torture; or (3) conspired to commit torture if any of those crimes either: (a) actually resulted in death; or (b) created a foreseeable risk of death; or (c) created a foreseeable risk of serious bodily injury to another person. In other words - as a result of amendments enacted in 2001 at the behest of Bush administration officials themselves - the available period for their indictment for torture could well be the rest of their lives.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00104.htm

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TIME IS NOT RUNNING OUT (AS CHENEY WOULD HOPE)
SEE THIS: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00104.htm
MUCH MORE PLUS LINKS:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/05/1013707/-Cheney-Can-Be-Prosecuted-for-Torture

[myrna minx]

1. I hope he'll be brought to justice for his war crimes, but just knowing that he lives in fear

brings some level of satisfaction.

[aquart]

9. Cheers me right up.

Just like bin Ladin sewing money into his clothes cheered me.

[gratuitous]

14. Knowing that he lives in fear may have to be enough

I surmise that should the long arm of the law begin closing in, Cheney will just take the battery out of his heart machine and quietly slip away into Satan's waiting arms.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Nothing would make me happier

I could be a lot more enthusiastic about the Obama administration if they would go forward on some kind of prosecution of these criminals. It's been one of my biggest disappointments.

[90-percent]

3. The last ten years of history

Something I find amazing is watching video's of the Iraq War new product roll out of 2002-2003. Looking at GWB in particular, along with the other traitors (Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Feith, et al) it is very easy to tell they barely believe their own bull shit. When Bush talks about evil ole' Saddam's WMD's and smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud, it's like he's telling kids horror stories on an overnight camp out.

It was bullshit all along and they knew it!

-90% Jimmy

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[The Wielding Truth]

5. He DID approve torture and torture IS illegal. We DID hold others

responsible when they tortured our people. Cheney IS NOT above the law.

[truedelphi]

6. However since the Cheney-Bush government redefined torture

And that new definition stood until just recently, (Early 2009, maybe?) the only places that Cheney would need to worry would be if he is on foreign soil.

As long as he confines his book signings to the USA, he won't be bothered in the least. (Except by the occasional protesters.)

[elocs]

7. What are the odds that he will be? Very small I would guess.

Life is full of coulda, woulda, shoudas that will never come to pass.

[cutlassmama]

8. Probably less than 1%. OTOH, on TV lately he looks VERY bad

[elocs]

11. His well known health problems are more than enough to make him look bad. n/t

[DearAbby]

10. Future Generation will do what we were to scared to do

Condemn the actions of Bush and Cheney, and everyone else involved. Too bad we have to kick this can down the road for our children to do.

[Mnemosyne]

12. ...

[samsingh]

13. he would be if he was a Democrat

[L. Coyote]

15. there is no statute of limitations whatsoever on charges against anyone who: (1) committed torture;

there is no statute of limitations whatsoever on charges against anyone who: (1) committed torture; (2) aided and abetted the commission of torture; or (3) conspired to commit torture