Gonzales not forgotten by Spanish authorities (De la Isla)

[struggle4progress]

Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 05/27/2009 - 14:09.

* By JOSE de la ISLA, Hispanic Link News Service
* editorials and opinion

On May 20, Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio disclosed that back in 2002, an interrogator had received authorization from higher ups to torture Abu Zubaydah. This was before the Justice Department had issued the memorandum by John Yoo on "harsh" interrogations ...

A source, in a position to know, disclosed to Shapiro on condition of anonymity that the CIA forwarded the request to the White House, where White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales signed off on the technique ...

On March 17 in a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid, Spanish prosecutor Javier Zaragoza told officials he would suspend his ongoing investigation of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five associates about their role in the torture of six Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo if the United States would undertake its own investigation into the matter, law professor and writer Scott Horton blogged in The Daily Beast ...

Zaragoza got no answer. Now, Spanish prosecutors are expected to announce soon they are pressing forward with their investigation.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/43394

[jtrockville]

1. Godspeed, Zaragoza

[Politicalboi]

2. Go get him

And get Bush/Cheney too.

[Demeter]

3. We're Outsourcing Criminal Justice Now (Shakes Head)

We could probably employ half of our unemployed just tracking down BFEE criminals and evidence.

[Wednesdays]

4. K&R

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