On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Kevin Callahan wrote:

>
> http://rawstory.com/news/2008/UN_official_Enough_evidence_to_prosecute_0126.html
>
> Monday, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred  
> Nowak told CNN's Rick Sanchez that the US has an "obligation" to  
> investigate whether Bush administration officials ordered torture,  
> adding that he believes that there is already enough evidence to  
> prosecute former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
>
> "We have clear evidence," he said. "In our report that we sent to  
> the United Nations, we made it clear that former Defense Secretary  
> Donald Rumsfeld clearly authorized torture methods and he was told  
> at that time by Alberto Mora, the legal council of the Navy, 'Mr.  
> Secretary, what you are actual ordering here amounts to torture.'  
> So, there we have the clear evidence that Mr. Rumsfeld knew what he  
> was doing but, nevertheless, he ordered torture."

I'm confused. Why investigate something that is not in dispute.  
Apparently the UN and the US senate agree on what Rumsfeld did. What  
is there to investigate?

-
God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much  
like  their own image of him.
-Kenneth Patchen

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