"At a minimum, intelligence officials, who clearly broke American law, should be investigated and have criminal charges brought against them.
This should include past and current senior officials, such as General Michael Hayden, Jose Rodriguez and John Brennan, not just for their implementation of the torture program, but for their malfeasance and perjury," Hoh said Tuesday.
Hoh, who served as a marine captain in both Iraq and Afghanistan, made his comments in the wake of the release of a scathing review of CIA interrogation techniques by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
The report's exposure of torture may not have been earth-shattering, but it did clarify "the deceit by the CIA towards the Congress, the White House and the American people," Hoh added.
He noted that, according to the report, many CIA officers disagreed with the torture program, but were overruled by senior staff.
"What this clearly shows is an intelligence service that operates without regulation, honor or loyalty," Hoh said.
The CIA and its senior officials, according to the former marine, "both past and present, have proven themselves to be bound only to their own institution and personal legacy".
According to Hoh, the report revealed the need for the United States to reform its intelligence services in light of the CIA electronic surveillance program that allows the agency to blackmail and intimidate opponents.
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary report that included more than 500 pages of the detailed investigation into the CIA controversial interrogation techniques that were used on alleged al-Qaeda agents, following the 9/11 attacks on Washington and New York.
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UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA, US officials for crimes committed during interrogations
UN, 9 December 2014 – A United States Senate report has confirmed what the international community has long believed – that there was a clear policy orchestrated at a high level within the Bush Administration which allowed to commit gross violations of international human rights law, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on counter terrorism and human rights said today...........................http://www.ellanodikis.net/2014/12/un-expert-calls-for-prosecution-of-cia.html
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CIA interrogations report sparks prosecution calls ...
ReplyDeleteThe UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in what a Senate report called the "brutal" CIA interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects.
A top UN human rights envoy said there had been a "clear policy orchestrated at a high level".
The CIA has defended its actions in the years after the 9/11 attacks on the US, saying they saved lives......
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UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Ben Emmerson said that senior officials from the administration of George W Bush who planned and sanctioned crimes must be prosecuted, as well as CIA and US government officials responsible for torture such as waterboarding.
"As a matter of international law, the US is legally obliged to bring those responsible to justice," Mr Emmerson said in a statement made from Geneva.
"The US attorney general is under a legal duty to bring criminal charges against those responsible."
Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth said that the CIA's actions were criminal "and can never be justified".
"Unless this important truth-telling process leads to prosecution of officials, torture will remain a 'policy option' for future presidents," he said................http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30407950
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CIA report: 'Torture is a crime and those responsible must be brought to justice'...
ReplyDeleteAmnesty International, Human Rights Watch and other rights advocates say prosecutions must follow Senate’s CIA torture report.
The UN, human rights activists and legal experts have renewed calls for the Obama administration to prosecute US officials responsible for the CIA torture programme revealed in extensive detail following the release of a damning report by the Senate intelligence committee.
The report, released on Tuesday, found the CIA misled the White House, the Justice Department, Congress and the public over a torture programme that was both ineffective and more brutal than the agency disclosed.
“Today’s release once again makes crystal clear that the US government used torture. Torture is a crime and those responsible for crimes must be brought to justice,” Amnesty International USA’s executive director, Steven W Hawkins, said in a statement.
“Under the UN Convention Against Torture, no exceptional circumstances whatsoever can be invoked to justify torture, and all those responsible for authorising or carrying out torture or other ill-treatment must be fully investigated.”
In Geneva, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Ben Emmerson, said CIA officers and other US government officials should be prosecuted....................http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/torture-cia-amnesty-international-human-rights-watch
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Calls for prosecution after 'torture report'...
ReplyDeleteUS Senate report on CIA interrogation tactics justifies reopening criminal investigations, rights advocates say.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee's report on secret interrogations and torture of suspects by the CIA from 2001-2007 provides enough new information to justify reopening criminal investigations, rights advocates say.
The report, released Tuesday after a three-year congressional investigation, summarises classified CIA cables that described the treatment by Central Intelligence Agency operatives of 119 people captured by the United States and subjected to "enhanced interrogation" authorised by the George W Bush administration after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
"The attorney general should appoint an independent prosecutor to do a top-to-bottom investigation that goes from the White House officials who ordered these activities to people in the field who carried them out," said Chris Anders, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.
The report found the CIA's tactics "were far more brutal than the CIA represented to policymakers and the American public". The CIA interrogation programme was investigated by the US Department of Justice beginning in 2009, as the Senate committee began its inquiry, but no charges were brought against officials or agents...................http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/12/calls-prosecution-after-torture-report-2014121052353558637.html
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Il y a des cas où la torture est justifiée (Le Pen) ...
ReplyDeleteLe recours à la torture peut être justifié dans certains cas, par exemple, afin d’empêcher une attaque terroriste meurtrière ou ayant une nécessité de « faire parler » quelqu'un, estime l'eurodéputé, le chef du Front national français, Marine Le Pen.
Commentant le rapport publié à la veille d'un certain nombre d'abus au sein de la CIA, indiquant, entre autres choses, l'utilisation de la torture, Le Pen a déclaré qu’elle ne condamnait pas leur utilisation et pourrait imaginer une situation, lorsque les tortures pourraient être utilisées.
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