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Os advogados de Obama discutem para deixar cair o terno da tortura de Yoo
Domingo, março 8o, 2009
Por Bob Egelko?| Justiça Departamento do presidente Obama defendeu o advogado anterior John Yoo da administração de Bush em uma corte federal sexta-feira do San Francisco, discutindo que um prisioneiro prendido anteriormente porque um combatente inimigo não teve nenhuma direita sue Yoo para os memorandos legais da escrita que conduziram alegada a seus detention e tortura. “Nós somos não dizendo nós desculpamos a tortura,” o Mason de Mary do advogado do departamento disse em um hearing no pedido do governo demitir um lawsuit arquivado por Jose Padilla. Mas todo o recourse de encontro a um advogado do governo “é para que o executivo decida-se, no primeiro exemplo, e para que o Congress decida-se,” não as cortes, disse. “Você não está dizendo que se os oficiais públicos elevados cometerem atos claramente ilegais, um assunto do cidadão 2 aqueles atos não tem nenhum remédio nesta corte?” ESTADOS UNIDOS pedidos. Branco de Jeffrey do juiz do distrito. Não a menos que o Congress autorizou expressa um lawsuit, o Mason respondeu. Cited o argumento que o departamento da justiça fêz no caso de Yoo o ano passado, com presidente George W. Bush ainda no escritório, aquele corteja não deve interferir na tomada de decisão executiva, especialmente no wartime. O branco não indicou como ou quando governaria. Yoo, um professor UC da lei de Berkeley agora na licença a ensinar na universidade do Chapman no condado alaranjado, escreveu uma série dos memorandos na interrogação, no detention e em poders presidenciais como um advogado no escritório do departamento da justiça de conselhos legais de 2001 a 2003. O memorando o mais best-known, escrito aos conselhos então-Brancos Alberto Gonzales da casa em 2002, tratamento áspero dito dos cativos atingiu a tortura somente se causou o mesmo nível da dor que do “a falha órgão, o impairment da função corporal ou mesmo a morte.” Disse também que o presidente pode ter o poder autorizar a tortura dos combatentes inimigos. Yoo recomendou também a administração de Bush que as convenções de Genebra no tratamento humano dos cativos não se aplicaram aos suspeitos do terrorista classificados como os combatentes inimigos. Um memorando 2001 de Yoo, feito público recentemente pela administração de Obama, disse ESTADOS UNIDOS. as forças militares podiam usar “todos os meios necessários” apreender e prender suspeitos do terror nos Estados Unidos, sem limitações constitutional. Os memorandos de Yoo “deixaram nosso cliente em uma terra dos nenhum-homens legais,” disse a esperança Metcalfe, um professor da escola de lei de Yale que representasse Padilla. His suit alleges that Yoo, as a member of Bush’s War Council, helped to devise detention and interrogation policies and knowingly breached constitutional standards in his memos to provide legal cover for those policies. Padilla, a U.S. citizen and Muslim convert, was arrested in Chicago in 2002 and accused by the Bush administration of plotting with al Qaeda to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb.” Declared an enemy combatant, Padilla was held in a brig for 3 1/2 years before being charged with taking part in an unrelated conspiracy to provide money and supplies to Islamic extremist groups. He was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in federal prison. He has appealed. Padilla’s lawsuit covers his time in the brig. His lawyers say he was illegally held as an enemy combatant, kept in isolation, confined in painful stress positions for prolonged periods, subjected to sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation, and threatened with harm to his family and with transfer to a nation where he would be tortured. Obama prohibited most of those methods shortly after taking office. Padilla claims Yoo was partly responsible for his treatment. Although government lawyers normally cannot be sued for legal advice, his suit accuses Yoo of stepping outside a lawyer’s proper role and giving advice he knew was unconstitutional. Mason, the Justice Department lawyer, said Yoo had no authority over Padilla and merely “gave very general advice about very general problems” for Bush to decide. Any court scrutiny of Yoo’s actions “requires inquiry into the highest levels of the United States government,” she said. Padilla has a similar suit pending in South Carolina, where he was held, against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other administration officials. ? Have Your Say: Obama lawyers argue to drop Yoo torture suit Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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