U.N. investigator urges U.S. to pursue Bush-era abuses

[CountAllVotes]

Source: Reuters

GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations investigator called on the United States on Monday to publish its findings on the CIA's Bush-era program of rendition and secret detention of terrorism suspects.

Ben Emmerson, U.N. special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, voiced concern that while President Barack Obama's administration has rejected Central Intelligence Agency practices conducted under his predecessor George W. Bush, there have been no prosecutions.

"Despite this clear repudiation of the unlawful actions carried out by the Bush-era CIA, many of the facts remain classified, and no public official has so far been brought to justice in the United States," Emmerson said in a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, which he will address on Tuesday.

Emmerson, an international lawyer from Britain, has served since August 2011 in the independent post set up by the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2005 to probe human rights violations committed during counter-terrorism operations worldwide.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-investigator-urges-u-pursue-bush-era-142233528.html

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I'd like to add that I should like to see this happen as well!

[Angry Dragon]

1. Need to go after the ones that gave the orders

Prison for little bush

[duhneece]

2. Am always glad to see those who want to pursue crimes against humanity

So many of us recognized the Bush administration committed many crimes against humanity in their quest for the unjustified war on Iraqi people.

[msongs]

14. including the current drone attacks on civilians in countries with whom we are not at war? nt

[CountAllVotes]

15. +1,000

We cannot ignore what is going on RIGHT NOW!

IGNORANCE IS INDEED BLISS ....

or is it?

[Bandit]

16. What country are we at war with?

As far as I know we are at war with the world and no specific country. I understand our war making is happening in many countries but I do not believe we are at war with any of those countries..I believe a part of the Bush* Doctrine is that we will go into any country we like and attack anyone we please if we even think they may not like us.. We do not need to be under attack or even threat of attack.. I think another name for it is American Exceptionalism....

[AnotherMcIntosh]

19. Class War

Per Warren Buffet, we're losing.

[Purveyor]

3. Thanks for posting this but won't ever happen. Just the way things work in DC, sadly. eom

[OnyxCollie]

4. President Looking Forward would rather protect the Bush administration.

Investigations might affect profits.

Propaganda, torture, illegal war, and domestic surveillance are all cool with the Constitutional Scholar in Chief as long as Big Oil/telecomms/defense contractors keep raking in the (our) dough.

[jsr]

5. Good luck.

[CountAllVotes]

6. I will not forget

NEVER!!!!!!!!!

[Solly Mack]

7. K&R

[Downwinder]

8. I would like to live long enough to see this happen.

I might live forever.

[CountAllVotes]

9. I hope you live long enough to see this happen

How can ANYONE forget Abu Ghraib? How can anyone forget about all of the innocents killed by this monster? How can anyone forget how many of our citizens have been sent to a war without end and a war without any meaning at all? How can we, as citizens of the United States allow this to be forever embossed into the history books as being a man that got away with all of the infractions known against humanity? HOW?

No one cares anymore because it was in the past but, its effects are still with us and affecting each and every one of us with every day that passes?

HOW CAN YOU NOT REMEMBER?

[Bandit]

17. We still have a US Senator that is Outraged that you might be Outraged over such things.

Senator Inhoffe was and I am sure still is "Outraged at the Outrage" over USA torturing people....

[davidthegnome]

10. Yeah, I'd like to see it happen too.

I'd also like to win the lottery.

I suppose I'm rather cynical in regards to anyone actually being held accountable in the US. It's not going to happen, primarily because the same corporations and individuals that funded the Bush administration are still funding congress - and undoubtedly a significant portion of the Obama administration. It's business as usual in Washington.

[cstanleytech]

11. Wont happen though CountAllVotes.

Officials in most of the governments of the world tend to be allowed to walk away from stuff they have done.

[davidn3600]

12. That'd be the day.

[L0oniX]

13. Silly UN ...laws are for common people ...not rich sociopaths and corporations ...but then

...I repeat myself.

[Madmiddle]

18. The yellow bastards fear collateral damage.

If this president allows a tribunal against Bushhe will end up under the impeachment process himself. So Obama has no balls anymore then the rest of the pussies in DC. The people are the only thing that can stop Washington from their ruination of this country, and I ain't talking aboput voting either. It's why we need all our guns, semi, automatic 100 round clips, yes we need this guns for the civil war that is starting here in America.

[just1voice]

20. War crimes never go away, maybe someday our government will get that

and prosecute a few of the Bushcrimewave war criminals.