Is the 'crime' a personal one, or one of the Office? As holder of the Office, shouldn't Obama be arrested instead?
Former President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday.
Criminal complaints against Bush alleging torture have been lodged in Geneva, court officials say. Can they request extradition?
"He's avoiding the handcuffs," Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.
The action in Switzerland showed Bush had reason to fear legal complaints against him if he travelled to countries that have ratified an international treaty banning torture, he said. Lawfare escalates on a second front.
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W. Bush knew exactly what he was doing. First of all, he was to appear before a major European Jewish group, many of who would automatically attack him, but his being denied to speak to them would be an embarrassing insult to that group.
Second, his administration made a lot of bilateral agreements with countries to forbid ICC persecution of US politicians and military personnel, but Switzerland refused.
Third, Switzerland is ticked off at the US right now, because of the US government coercing them to allow access to secret bank account information. One of their bank employees did the unthinkable and released that information not too long ago.
So the bottom line is that W. was just pranking a whole lot of people.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
