FBI agents who witnessed the torture of detainees at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba created what they called a "war crimes" file documenting what they had seen, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
Sphere: Related ContentSpeaking to the WSWS, Francis Boyle, a professor of international law and human rights at the University of Illinois, said, "Clearly this was criminal activity at the time they committed it. At the very least, it violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the War Crimes Act, and the federal anti-torture statutes. Clearly these would be impeachable offenses."
Sphere: Related ContentPresident Bush’s commutation of the 30-month prison sentence of I. Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, is a monument to the lawlessness of the Bush administration and the utter corruption of the American ruling elite.
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