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使合法的酷刑的遗产
星期三， 2007年8月29日
拷打者的辞职在院长由他的赞助人，总统注意，作为一不幸的天为美国民主。 ？它？s哀伤我们在时候居住，当一个有天才和高尚的人喜欢Alberto Gonzales从完成重要工作被妨碍，因为他的好名字通过泥被扯拽了为政治原因， ？ 在星期一布什总统哀叹。 什么好名字？ 终究布什选Gonzales是国家？s最高的执法官员在Gonzales之后证明了他的胆略为工作作为白宫官员。 他的法律建议对总统是酷刑是一个合法的选择，因为布什？自已被定义的s ？反恐怖战争？ 消除所有预先的法律克制和特别是？回报过时日内瓦？s严密的局限在问敌对囚犯。？ Gonzales ？ 臭名昭著的备忘录对总统从1月。 25， 2002年，也被回报过时，在其他宪法保障中，在行政分支提供国会支票力量的分裂。 根据Gonzales ？ 专业评断，总统不再一定观察1996战争犯罪行动，允许美国人邢事诉讼为违犯日内瓦公约和为？暴行在个人尊严。？ 根据那法律，他们批准的总统和他的检察长潜在地会是受严厉惩罚支配，包括死亡，为系统的酷刑。 难怪布什需要任命Gonzales当检察长，唯恐某一进取司法部律师胆敢曝光发出从白宫的罪行。 不是稀奇的关心，假设我们有从早先检察长，约翰Ashcroft，把严肃的保留关于违反保护根本人权的法律的博学。 的确， Gonzales的澄清的片刻？ 政府工作是他的夜间参观对Ashcroft ？s医院病床，然后白色内阁大臣没有欺骗衰弱的Ashcroft入批准政府监视的地方引伸。 被拒绝的Ashcroft和仅被保护了免受进一步骚扰由FBI罗伯特· S.的主任干预。 Mueller III。 问题由Ashcroft提出了？法律正直s显示，当布什给了他的工作Gonzales，消灭了。 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.? Have Your Say: A Legacy of Legitimizing Torture Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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