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HRW: Prosecute Bush for Torture
 A US human rights group has called on foreign governments to prosecute George W Bush and some of his senior officials for war crimes if the Obama administration fails to investigate a growing body of evidence against the former president over the use of torture.The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday that the US authorities were legally obliged to investigate the top echelons of the Bush administration over crimes such as torture, abduction and other mistreatment of prisoners. It says that the former administration's legal team was part of the conspiracy in preparing opinions authorizing abuses that they knew to have no standing in US or international law. Besides Bush, HRW names his vice-president, Dick Cheney, the former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and the ex-CIA director, George Tenet, as likely to be guilty of authorizing torture and other crimes. HRW says an investigation should also examine roles played by Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and the then attorney general, John Ashcroft, and administration lawyers in crafting the legal justifications for torture. Posted by: tu3031 2011-07-12 |
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