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Torture: Berlin Stuns World. G W Bush, George Tenet, Donald Rumsfeld, Other Face Hastened Legal Action

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George W. Bush’s CIA head, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others have had criminal complaints filed against them in Germany on Wednesday. The Federal Prosecutor must not wait until former CIA boss Tenet, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and others are on German soil to begin a legal investigation is the decision made Wednesday by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

 

 

Torture Architects Face European Legal Action

 

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin has today lodged criminal complaints against former CIA head George Tenet, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the administration of former US President George W. Bush. The ECCHR is accusing Tenet, Rumsfeld and a series of other persons of the war crime of torture under paragraph 8 section 1(3) of the German Code of Crimes against International Law (Völkerstrafgesetzbuch).

 

The constituent elements of the crime of torture have been established again in the recent case by the US Senate in its report on CIA interrogation methods.

 

“The architects of the torture system – politicians, officials, secret service agents, lawyers and senior army officials – should be brought before the courts,” says ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck, who is appearing today before the German Parliamentary Committee on legal affairs. “By investigating members of the Bush administration, Germany can help to ensure that those responsible for abduction, abuse and illegal detention do not go unpunished.”

 

The US Senate report devotes one section explicitly to the German citizen Khaled El Masri abducted by CIA agents in 2004 due to a case of mistaken identity and was tortured in a secret detention center in Afghanistan. The criminal complaint details the US Senate report’s finding that once the unlawful error was discovered, the former CIA director refused to take further steps against those responsible.

 

ECCHR calls on Federal Prosecutor Harald Range to open investigations into the actions of Tenet, Rumsfeld and other perpetrators and to set up a monitoring process as soon as possible. This would allow the German authorities to act immediately in the event that one of the suspects enters European soil and not have to wait until such point before beginning the complex investigations and legal deliberations.

 

With the US Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Kaleck had previously submitted criminal complaints against Tenet and Rumsfeld in Germany in 2004 and 2006 and against Bush in Switzerland in 2011. ECCHR is also involved in legal proceedings in Spain and France concerning Guantánamo.

 

The present ECCHR criminal complaint is supported by former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak, the CCR in New York along with its President Emeritus Michael Ratner and its Vice President Peter Weiss, winner of the Martin Ennals Awards 2014 Alejandra Ancheita, Professor for International and Public Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels Annemie Schaus, Professor for Criminal Law at University of Hamburg Florian Jeßberger and Berlin attorney Dieter Hummel.

 

Recently, torture was explained by hailed human rights whistleblower Edward Snowden, unlike Fox News that has downplayed the war crime, instead pushing it as “awesome”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information see http://www.ecchr.de/us_accountability.html



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    • bafa

      Basically, the tortures (employees) are violent sexual perverts. We have seen enough pictures to prove this.

      • Deborah Dupre

        Agreed. Raping is a favorite form of torture but don;t expect the CIA to admit it. Do, however, see what innocent targeted individuals say about being covertly raped – physically, technologically. The “Torture Report” is only the tip of the iceberg, especially considering TIs’ torture that is a massive coverup, including by health providers.

    • Ideas Time

      The fox gal can hang with the rest of them.

    • Deborah Dupre

      Instead of key psychopaths living in their multimillion dollar homes and roaming freely, they’ll finally be living behind prison bars?

    • wiseoldlady

      Lets see…the secret government did 9/11….blame it on Muslims…lie to the world…start all the Middle East wars…congress knowing the truth and collecting monthly HUSH payments approve torture ….try to blame on only a few…and no one gets convicted of criminal behavior. They ALL need to be imprisoned….including those Jews in Israel.

      • Deborah Dupre

        Great succinct history lesson there, Wiseoldlady. Thank you.

    • owleyone

      It’s really too bad this court has no recognition.

      • Deborah Dupre

        Which court?

    • Anonymous

      There are no other sources out there that I can find so this looks like just more BS disinfo.

      • KnowMoreThanYou

        Yep, just like the other rumors that the pope will be prosecuted for sexual crimes aswell, nothing going to happen..

        • Deborah Dupre

          Don’t count on it, Anonymous. Hope, pray – but mostly take action to make it happen.

      • Deborah Dupre

        No other sources? Among others, Democracy Now! has reported it: War Crimes Suit Filed in Germany Against Rumsfeld, Other Top U.S. Officials Over Prisoner Torture http://www.democracynow.org/2006/11/14/war_crimes_suit_filed_in_germany

    • StavoV

      Makes one sleep better at night, knowing the world wants to hang the gw bush crime family. Yes…..a good feeling indeed. :grin: :razz: :twisted:

    • rustywhite

      So ..Deborah…

      What is it YOU suggest we do”

      peace

      • Deborah Dupre

        Thank you, Rusty. For one, stop voting/supporting every politician that has condoned or supported torture in any way and rally for those risking everything to stop it and bring about justice.

        I’m appalled at so-called progressives supporting Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. Most BIN readers know Clinton belongs behind bars along with the rest of the Bush Crime Family. Too few, however, know Warren is pro-Israeli war crimes, as she blatantly explains on her website.

        The other thing that’s needed is a full investigation on the 1000s of innocent Targeted individuals being tortured in their own homes and communities with impunity. It’s real. It’s horrendous. It’s happening in your community – with the aid of systems including medical and legal. It can happen to anyone and their children.

    • homeservicespro

      No surprise there:

    • Anonymous

      As an American citizen and an honorably discharged American veteran, I resent the media and so called pollsters declaring that the majority of the American people supported torture. THE HELL WE DID! WE DID NOT SUPPORT TORTURE. The media and the pollsters lied! American citizens have ALWAYS been against torture. Torture is a violation of the Geneva Convention, and anyone who says it is ok to torture to get to the truth is a liar, a traitor to this nation’s U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. We The People DO NOT CONDONE TORTURE.

      • Deborah Dupre

        Your comment and compassion are surely appreciated. I’ve heard too many Americans, however, admit they support torture – “if warranted.” That means nothing more than cruel and unusual punishment are OK if the person deserves it – regardless of international law. And that’s the exact same opinion too many Americans have regarding widespread torture in the US prison system – or it would have stopped long ago.

        Think about it: Americans not only condone torture. They condone killing. Best example is killing in the form of capital punishment, with US having the highest rate of of killing prisoners per capital in the world. more than half of the countries in the world (51 percent) have abolished the death penalty. The US is only country in either North or South America to conduct executions in 2013. The U.S. is the only country enforcing the death penalty among G8 countries. 32 of 50 states still have the death penalty. (41% of 2013 executions in Texas alone.)

        I’ve seen some of the “worst” justification comments on BIN under my other articles on torture in CIA black sites and US prisons on US soil. Those opinions reflect an eye for an eye type sentiment. In their justification of torture as a form of punishment, some even quote the Bible – the Old Testament, of course, not Jesus.

        And yes, it’s been known for decades that torture does not yield credible information. It’s also been known for years that US torture makes every American more hated, more at risk of real terror attacks by real terrorists. Revenge is an ugly and uncivilized reaction by sad humans, seemingly mainly those with extremist religious beliefs.

        Your not supporting torture for reasons you write are admirable. They are precisely what will need to be transferred to all Americans if there is ever to be national and world peace.

    • wakeupsheeple

      This woman from fox needs some serious waterboarding! See how awesome she feels then!

    • robotlion

      They will never face any court anywhere. They protect themselves and are protected by others. It will be a great day when those guilty will be judged for their crimes but in todays world it just doesn’t happen. As much as we would like to see these people and others be held accountable for their actions I can’t see it happening. I hope I’m wrong. Time will tell

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