Human rights lawyers: Expand war crimes probe of U-S officials (Gonzales)

[truthpusher]

http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=2880441

Human rights lawyers: Expand war crimes probe of U-S officials

FRANKFURT, Germany U-S based human rights lawyers are asking German prosecutors to investigate the U-S attorney general nominee for possible war crimes.

The attorneys say Alberto Gonzales should be part of a probe they're seeking into the actions of U-S officials in Iraq.

The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights has already filed a suit with German federal prosecutors saying U-S officials are responsible for acts of torture committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The suit names Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former C-I-A director George Tenet.

The attorneys say they chose Germany for the lawsuit because of its laws allowing prosecution of human rights violations across national boundaries.

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http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=2880441

[ChicanoPwr]

1. I say.....

burn the fucker. Gonzales is a traitor to the Hispanic cause, nothing more but a PNAC whore. :mad:

[burythehatchet]

5. thanks for saying that, you know they're gonna pull the same shit

as "they're attacking condi cuz she's black".

[LibertyorDeath]

6. If he Sinks he's innocent & if he Floats he's Guilty!!

:toast:

[Tempest]

7. Hispanic Caucus refuses to endorse Gonzalez

They cited the torture memos when they announced they wouldn't support his appointment.

[ChicanoPwr]

9. I got know alot more of Hispanic organizations

who will not support this PNAC whore.

Civil rights, Latino groups charge Gonzales unfit for office
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/6297/1/247

Latino civil rights leaders held a press conference in San Francisco Jan. 10 to urge Gonzales’ rejection. The nominee “has a very troubling view of our government’s checks and balances,” said Maria Blanco, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and former senior counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). She cited Gonzales’ testimony to the Senate that the president, and not the courts, has the right to decide legal issues, including defining torture so narrowly as to allow physical punishment short of death or permanent physical harm.

[Pam-Moby]

2. This shows that Gonzales is not our choice...n/t

[burythehatchet]

3. the power of symbolism...its important for the

history to record the correct version.

[Vincardog]

4. I say it is about time. Charge Chenney and the BFEE for war profiteering

[struggle4progress]

8. kick

[ChicanoPwr]

10. kick

[FuzzyDicePHL]

11. Yes!

Hal-lay-loo-ya

:kick: