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06/01/05
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Gonzales, Torturegate et droit d'exception ? -
Gonzales,
Torturegate and "exception" law ?...
White
House Won't Release Gonzales Papers
AP 06/01/05
"The White House refused Thursday to provide senators
additional documents on attorney general nominee Alberto
Gonzales' role in the decision to allow aggressive
interrogations of terrorism detainees. The top Democrat at
Gonzales' Senate confirmation hearing said that questioning
was ``tantamount to torture.''..."
Does
the Right Remember Abu Ghraib?
WaPo 05/01/05
"...How else to explain the nomination of Alberto
Gonzales to the post of attorney general of the United States?
Or, more to the point: How else to explain the widespread
assumption that Gonzales -- who commissioned the "torture
memo" of August 2002, following a meeting in his office
-- will be decisively confirmed? After all, eight months ago,
much of the country -- and much of the Republican Party -- was
gripped by horror and embarrassment after the publication of
photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Those photographs
haven't gone away: As I write this, I need only click on my
computer's Internet Explorer icon and there is Lynndie
England, grinning and giving a thumbs-up behind a pile of
naked men..."
"...By nominating Gonzales to his Cabinet, the president
has demonstrated not only that he is undisturbed by these
aberrations, but that he still doesn't understand the nature
of the international conflict which he says he is fighting.
Like communism, radical Islam is an ideology that people will
die for. To fight it, the United States needs not just to show
off its fancy weapons systems but also to prove to the Islamic
world that democratic values, in some moderate Islamic form,
will give them better lives. The Cold War ended because
Eastern Europeans were clamoring to join the West; the war on
terrorism will be over when moderate Muslims abandon the
radicals and join us. They will not do so if our system
promotes people who support legal arguments for human rights
abuse..."
"...And those are only a few senators. In fact, anyone
who has ever wanted the United States to play a role in
promoting and supporting democracy and human rights around the
world -- and this includes a wide swath of the conservative
movement -- ought to oppose the appointment of Alberto
Gonzales, if only on the grounds that he is associated with
bad legal advice that has damaged our ability to do so. Just
because the president can't remember how embarrassed we all
were eight months ago doesn't mean the rest of Washington, and
especially the rest of the president's party, need be gripped
by amnesia as well."
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Bush's
Counsel Sought Ruling About Torture
NYT 05/01/05
"Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel, intervened
directly with Justice Department lawyers in 2002 to obtain a
legal ruling on the extent of the president's authority to
permit extreme interrogation practices in the name of national
security, current and former administration officials said
Tuesday..."
Retired
US General on Alberto Gonzales: "He Has Endangered Our
Soldiers"
Democracy Now 05/01/05
"As the Senate prepares for confirmation hearings on
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney
general, we speak with retired Brigadier General James Cullen
- one of 12 retired Admirals and Generals who are calling on
the Judiciary Committee to scrutinize Gonzales' role in
setting the stage for U.S. torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib
and Guantanamo Bay..."
"...On Monday, a dozen retired generals and admirals,
including former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
General John Shalikashvili released a letter to the Judiciary
Committee noting that Gonzales" recommendations
"fostered greater animosity toward the United States,
undermined our intelligence gathering efforts, and added to
the risks facing our troops serving around the
world."..."
Lire également, Read also :
Long-Term
Plan Sought For Terror Suspects
WaPo 03/01/05
"Administration officials are preparing long-range plans
for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do
not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United
States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense
and diplomatic officials.
The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide
on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime
detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military
and CIA custody whom the government does not have enough
evidence to charge in courts. The outcome of the review, which
also involves the State Department, would also affect those
expected to be captured in the course of future
counterterrorism operations..."
Jim
Haynes As a Stalking Horse In Torturegate:
Why
President Bush Renominated Him for A Federal Appellate
Judgeship
FindLaw 31/12/04
"...There are two possibilities: One may be that Haynes
is such a poor nominee, Democrats will feel they have
no choice but to filibuster and thus invite the "nuclear
option."
Another is that Bush is stealing a page from Nixon's strategy
book, and "pricking the boil" - that is, seeking to
defuse a festering scandal. The scandal, of course, is
Torturegate. "I think we've got to prick that goddamn
boil. And take the heat," Nixon would say. Perhaps Bush,
behind closed doors, is saying the same thing..."
Voir, See :
Records
Released in Response to Torture FOIA Request (released
by the government 12/15/04, released by the ACLU 12/20/04)
Bush
Administration Documents on Interrogation
WaPo 23/06/04
A
Guide to the Memos on Torture
NYT
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