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Torture Must End

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Accountability for torture

From Naomi Wolf at www.guardian.co.uk


"So we should call for retired General James Cullen's solution. A former military prosecutor, he has been at the forefront of calling for accountability – but the right kind. He urges us to indemnify those lower down the chain of command to get their testimonies, so they implicate the ringleaders; and then the only people who should be prosecuted are, as at Nuremberg, those who directed otherwise honorable men and women to commit crimes – the lawyers, and those who are on record as having given the orders: Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Bush himself. Lay the guilt where it belongs: on Congress; most particularly, and legally, on the leadership that directed this policy; and, emotionally and morally, on our complicit American selves."

Naomi Wolf is the author of Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/28/torture-hyprocrisy



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