{"id":361735,"date":"2018-05-18T07:58:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-could-be-subject-to-arrest-abroad-under-universal-jurisdiction-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T07:58:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:58:39","slug":"haspel-could-be-subject-to-arrest-abroad-under-universal-jurisdiction-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/haspel-could-be-subject-to-arrest-abroad-under-universal-jurisdiction-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Haspel Could Be Subject to Arrest Abroad Under Universal Jurisdiction \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Gina Haspel is the new CIA Director after the Senate voted on Thursday 54-44 to confirm her, with six Democrats agreeing. In this interview, Francis Boyle explains why Haspel could be at risk of arrest on trips abroad. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span id=\"more-27868\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>By Dennis J Bernstein<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bernstein-New.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bernstein-New-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27406\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"87\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27406\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bernstein-New-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"87\" height=\"87\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a>Francis Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is the author of many books on International Law and an outspoken critic of US policy in the Middle East. Boyle\u2019s books include <i>Foundations of World Order<\/i> and the sequel, <i>Destroying World Order<\/i>. In the following interview with Pacifica Radio host Dennis J Bernstein, Boyle warns that, among other things, given her background as key implementer of the US torture program, Gina Haspel is vulnerable to be arrested for war crimes and crimes against humanity if she travels abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Dennis Bernstein spoke with Francis Boyle on May 10th, 2018. [The transcript has been updated to reflect Haspel\u2019s confirmation.]\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>DB: [<\/b>We now have a new ]\u00a0a new CIA director who likes to get her hands dirty and participate directly in torture. She has also been actively involved in making sure nobody finds out that torture takes place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26788\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/boylesm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/boylesm.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-26788 size-full\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"254\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26788 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/boylesm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"254\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boyle: CIA is organized, criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>FB:<\/b> \u201cBloody\u201d Gina Haspel is her nickname at the CIA. She was directly involved in the extraordinary rendition program, which is a euphemism for the enforced disappearance of human beings and their consequent torture. This was in the complaint I filed against Bush and company in 2010 with the International Criminal Court for this crime against humanity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Last fall the ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, said she is going to open up an investigation into the entire CIA extraordinary rendition program for violating the Rome Statute. Although the United States is not a party to the Rome Statute, these actions took place on the territorial sovereignty of Rome Statute states, and therefore the ICC does have jurisdiction. In my opinion, Gina Haspel is a presumptive war criminal and torturer. [We now] have a torturer and war criminal as head of the CIA.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As I have argued in anti-CIA cases here in the United States, the CIA is an organized criminal conspiracy like the SS and&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/05\/18\/haspel-could-be-subject-to-arrest-abroad-under-universal-jurisdiction\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gina Haspel is the new CIA Director after the Senate voted on Thursday 54-44 to confirm her, with six Democrats agreeing. In this interview, Francis Boyle explains why Haspel could be at risk of arrest on trips abroad. \u00a0 By Dennis J Bernstein Francis Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-361735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}