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Una herencia de la tortura Legitimizing

Miércoles 29 de agosto de 2007
¿Cree su propia realidad?

Los secretos subconscientes expusieron

¡Nunca miéntase a otra vez!

Qué le no suponen saber

Por Roberto Scheer

La dimisión del torturador en jefe fue observada por su patrón, el presidente, como día desafortunado para la democracia americana. ¿? ¿Él? ¿s triste que vivimos en una época en que una persona talentosa y honorable tiene gusto de Alberto Gonzales se impide de hacer el trabajo importante porque su buen nombre fue arrastrado a través del fango por razones políticas? Presidente Bush se lamentó el lunes.

¿Qué buen nombre? ¿Después de todo, Bush escogió a Gonzales para ser la nación? el funcionario más alto de la aplicación de ley de s solamente después de Gonzales había probado su mettle para el trabajo como consejos blancos de la casa. ¿Su asesoramiento jurídico al presidente era que la tortura es una opción legítima, porque Bush? ¿s uno mismo-definido? ¿guerra en terror? ¿limpiado hacia fuera todo el alojamiento legal anterior y particularmente? ¿rinde Ginebra obsoleta? ¿limitaciones terminantes de s en la cuestión de los presos enemigos.?

¿Gonzales? nota infame al presidente a partir de enero. 25, 2002, también rendido obsoleto, entre otras salvaguardias constitucionales, la división de energías que proporciona un cheque del congreso en el rama ejecutivo. ¿Según Gonzales? ¿el juicio profesional, el presidente estuvo limitado no más para observar los 1996 crímenes de guerra actúa, que permite el procesamiento criminal de los americanos para violar a las convenciones de Ginebra y para? ¿ultrajes sobre dignidad personal.? Según esa ley, el presidente y su Procurador General de la República potencialmente estarían conforme a penas severas, incluyendo muerte, para la tortura sistemática que autorizaron.

Ninguna maravilla Bush necesitó designar a Gonzales como Procurador General de la República, a fin de una cierta exposición emprendedora del atrevimiento del abogado del departamento de la justicia la criminalidad que emanaba de la casa blanca. No una preocupación imaginaria, dado que tenemos desde docto que el Procurador General de la República anterior, Juan Ashcroft, tenía reservas serias sobre romper los leyes que protegían derechos humanos fundamentales. ¿De hecho, el momento que clarifica lo más de Gonzales? ¿el servicio de gobierno era su visita de la noche a Ashcroft? cama del hospital de s, donde los consejos entonces-Blancos de la casa no pudieron engañar un Ashcroft enfermo en autorizar una extensión de la vigilancia del gobierno. Ashcroft rechazado y fue protegido contra el hostigamiento adicional solamente por la intervención de director Roberto S. de FBI. Mueller III. ¿El problema presentado por Ashcroft? la exhibición de s de la integridad legal fue eliminada cuando Bush dio su trabajo a Gonzales.

While the media are once again buying the White House backroom spin that the president?s error in the Gonzales scandal is one of misplaced loyalty to a friend who didn?t perform up to expectations, the truth is that Bush promoted Gonzales because of his assaults on the Constitution and not in ignorance of that sorry record. As the president put it in ?reluctantly? accepting the resignation of ?a man of integrity, decency and principle?: ?As Attorney General and before that, as White House Counsel, Al Gonzales has played a role in shaping our policies in the war on terror. … The PATRIOT Act, the Military Commissions Act and other important laws bear his imprint.?

Frighteningly accurate testimony: that the Gonzales legacy will live on long after his government tenure. One aspect of that dreadful legacy, not often remarked upon, is that Gonzales shaped Bush?s selections of lifetime appointees to the judiciary that will preside for decades to come. As Bush observed: ?As Attorney General, he played an important role in helping to confirm two fine jurists in Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito. He did an outstanding job as White House Counsel, identifying and recommending the best nominees to fill critically important federal court vacancies.?

One of those critical vacancies was filled on Gonzales? recommendation by the appointment of then-Assistant Attorney General Jay S. Bybee as a judge on the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Bybee distinguished himself in the eyes of Gonzales and the president by being the author of the 50-page ?Bybee memo? of Aug. 1, 2002, which held that torturing al-Qaida captives ?may be justified? and that international laws against torture ?may be unconstitutional if applied to interrogations? conducted under President Bush. But Bybee went further than merely sweeping aside the restraints of international law, concluding, ?Finally, even if an interrogation method might violate Sect. 2340A [of the U.S. Torture Convention passed in 1994] necessity or self-defense could provide justification that would eliminate any criminal liability.?

The Bybee memo protected Gonzales and Bush from being branded with the ?torturer? label by arguing that torture ?covers only extreme acts … where the pain is physical, it must be of an intensity akin to that which accompanies serious physical injury such as death or organ failure.? Oh? Maybe my opening sentence for this column was too harsh. Surely Gonzales, and the president who still adores him, intended all along to draw the line at organ failure.?


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