http://michiganmessenger.disqus.com/enFri, 27 Feb 2009 23:09:24 -0000http://www.michiganmessenger.com/1534/new-report-documents-abuse-by-american-personnel#comment-6718413That's truly very shameful, I am unable to digest it!QuotesFri, 27 Feb 2009 23:09:24 -0000http://www.michiganmessenger.com/1534/new-report-documents-abuse-by-american-personnel#comment-1663075<strong>Top Dems complicit?</strong> Lots of observers believe that top Dems like Pelosi were notified about the torture policies and made complicit in them by signing off on them. <p><br>You have to admit, that *is* a perfectly logical explanation why Democratic leadership has taken impeachment off the table and why there has been no or little traction for war crimes hearings, because it's asking the getaway drivers to turn in the gunmen who robbed the bank. They don't want to get implicated in the ensuing trial.</p><p><br>That was Rove and Cheney's insurance policy: showing key Dems enough of what was going on behind the curtain to get their cooperation later if word got out about human rights violations and other unconstitutional activities by this administration.</p><p><br>The evidence is there. And mounting. Where is the special prosecutor?</p><p></p>Todd SpencerTue, 08 Jul 2008 06:49:04 -0000http://www.michiganmessenger.com/1534/new-report-documents-abuse-by-american-personnel#comment-1663074<strong>It won't be this DOJ</strong> Not under this administration, since the DOJ has been complicit in the systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Convention Against Torture.<p><br>We have to hope that the Hague begins work on prosecution as disclosures are made, to keep the guilty parties from seeking refuge abroad.</p><p><br>We also have to hope that Congress finds its spine and takes its lumps and considers an independent truth commission into torture as well as a return to the independent prosecutors' law.</p><p><br>But again, we could be relying on another potentially complicit organization to do the policing.&nbsp; Which members of Congress, particularly those among the Gang of Eight were provided details regarding the interrogations of detainees?&nbsp; Are these same members of Congress potential war criminals, too?&nbsp; Is this why they struggle with finding their spines?</p>LoRayne Apo-JoyntTue, 08 Jul 2008 06:45:59 -0000http://www.michiganmessenger.com/1534/new-report-documents-abuse-by-american-personnel#comment-1663073<strong>Shameful</strong> As a nation we should be ashamed. But who will bring the war crimes charges? The Department of Injustice?Tony CollingsTue, 08 Jul 2008 06:28:51 -0000