Sunday, March 29, 2009

Spanish court was connected to the investigation of torture at Guantanamo.

Spanish law enforcement authorities are considering the possibility of institutions of criminal proceedings against several members of the administration of former U.S. President George W. Bush, suspected of complicity in the torture of the American prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. This was on Saturday reported Associated Press.
Former officials, in particular, are suspected of providing legal cover for torture in Guantanamo. The file was sent to the famous Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, specialized in the processes of war crimes and terrorism, adds AP.
Summary of the case involves six people: a former U.S. Prosecutor General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Secretary of Defense Douglas Fait (Douglas Feith), the former head of the Vice-President Dick Cheney, David Addington (David Addington), the Ministry of Justice, John Yoo (John Yoo) and Jay S. Baibo (Jay S. Bybee), and Pentagon lawyer William Haynes (William Haynes).
The only who made a comment such information became Fait, called the charges against their unfounded. "I was criticized for its controversial policy, which I never supported", - he said.
The direction of the case Garson and other prosecutors means only the first step in the investigation, said AP. Now, prosecutors will decide whether to begin full-scale investigation against former officials of the Bush administration.
Note that this is not the first investigation of torture in foreign prisons and CIA in particular - at Guantanamo. Thus, verification of the CIA during the interrogation had already taken the Senate Intelligence Committee on the United States is also under suspicion of involvement in torture in U.S. prisons hit British intelligence MI-5, which began investigating the activities of the London police.

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