Thursday, 1 January 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Center For Constitutional Rights (CCR) widely recognized as the United States most highly regarded group of legal minds in the nation committed to fighting the most significant legal battles to uphold the United States Constitution in the face of the gravest threats to the integrity of that miraculously crafted compact which ultimately could cause the fall of the United States as we know it as conceived by the Founding Fathers and ratified by the several states, and thus one of the most vital group of patriots of our time fighting battles in the judicial system making sacrifices daily in the face of adversity just as those made by the many brave warriors prepared to go and who do go and have gone into the field of battle willing to make the supreme sacrifice to fight to protect and preserve the United States as we know it for this and future generations, demands that the United States "Prosecute CIA Torturers" for what actually are obvious crimes "on the books" under existing United States laws signatory treaties and conventions.
The CCR material provided here below clearly states this. This is neither a challenging nor difficult legal determination. The only question remaining is whether this Nation has the will to save itself now from the sorry dregs of a Bush (43) Administration that may well have bullied its way into the White House in the first place and now would have the audacity to spit in the eye of the Founding Fathers with a few trite quips from those who may have commandeered our Nation into the fields of disaster more than once already and would dare do it again from the highest level down to those CIA officials who even now are playing a most dangerous Constitutional game on the wrong side against the Senate Intelligence Committee with the CIA trying even today to oversee those Constitutionally empowered and indeed required to oversee them and then further on down to those who actually carried out the acts of torture.
The CIA is not a fourth branch of government. Ultimately as an executive branch agency it is under the command and control of President Obama alone. If the CIA believes it is otherwise and acts under that delusion with its usual tired bag of dirty tricks supplemented by misinformation, disinformation, no information and just plain lies as obviously demonstrated by the groundless "debate" raging over the so-called "Panetta Report" which reportedly not only proves the CIA knowingly has provided "information" to those in the Senate who would oversee it which the CIA has known to be false (itself punishable when such lies are told to a Congressional Committee under sworn oath) but further which validates the 6,000+ page Torture Report painstakingly prepared by incredibly dedicated Senate staffers even in the face of every ridiculously incredibly costly to taxpayers burdensome obstacle, smokescreen and outright refusal the CIA could come up with to the point of hacking the computers of those charged with overseeing it and even further making serious allegations against its overseers for what if anything would appear to be nothing but its own ineptitude in releasing material most significantly the "Panetta Report" which it should have turned over willingly anyway yet instead persists in such uncooperative antagonistic behavior even further fabricating bogus non-existent privileges as if it were in litigation and represented by counsel either of such a low caliber and/or so morally bankrupt as to call to question their fitness to practice law, well then, Houston we have a problem here.
Very few people want to go to prison. No one wants to go to a secret ghastly CIA prison torture chamber. But the desperate fear of a group of torturers who have clearly broken laws prohibiting torture and now would go to any length to avoid punishment, government officials and/or agents or not, carries no weight at all in their trying to escape what now should be the inevitable consequences of their being tried in a court of law and if convicted serving the time for doing the crime. Especially when their actions have been so anathema to the most fundamental values which are the foundation of the United States Constitution and literally define this American nation which to the extent it has not fully achieved them always in practice nevertheless forever strives to bring itself closer to them.
No person and certainly not Dick Cheney of all people as well as those all the way down the line to those who were responsible for and those who carried out these horribly despicable atrocious heinous acts of torture should escape accountability. Moreover the United States Constitution has suffered far too much damage already as a result of their actions as any thinking American might imagine had the Founding Fathers believed that their incredibly miraculous work that summer over two and a quarter centuries ago in drafting the United States Constitution might create a country that could even possibly not only practice acts of crime against humanity but actually condone torture implicitly by failing to punish those responsible for its commission merely out of fear of their baseless bluster and constant attempts at bullying the Ninth Amendment editorial board believes the Founding Fathers would have been sickened to the point of vomiting at the thought of the creation of not a framework for government that would be an enduring model for and envy of the world but instead a monster that of course inevitably should and must crumble.
Finally perhaps the most immediately compelling reason to see the investigation and prosecution of these horrendous acts of torture through to their final conclusion have been widely noted to be captured by the characteristically thoughtless but in this case ominously laden words of Dick Cheney himself which the Center for Constitutional Rights highlights in its unequivocal statement of why the United States must without doubt "Prosecute CIA Torturers".
The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board for interested/concerned readers concerning unapologetic attitudes of some other U.S. national security officials concerning their repeated illegal "official" actions violating core Constitutional rights including possible lead roles in ordering/condoning torture activities constituting human rights violations violating U.S. law and international signatory treaties and conventions for which they express not only no remorse but an apparent willingness immediately to engage in other similar illegal activities are referred to the Ninth Amendment 11 October 2014 post concerning General William C. Hayden which is linked to at http://waronnothing.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-kill-people-based-on-metadata.html.
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved (no claim to CCR content)
The CCR material provided here below clearly states this. This is neither a challenging nor difficult legal determination. The only question remaining is whether this Nation has the will to save itself now from the sorry dregs of a Bush (43) Administration that may well have bullied its way into the White House in the first place and now would have the audacity to spit in the eye of the Founding Fathers with a few trite quips from those who may have commandeered our Nation into the fields of disaster more than once already and would dare do it again from the highest level down to those CIA officials who even now are playing a most dangerous Constitutional game on the wrong side against the Senate Intelligence Committee with the CIA trying even today to oversee those Constitutionally empowered and indeed required to oversee them and then further on down to those who actually carried out the acts of torture.
The CIA is not a fourth branch of government. Ultimately as an executive branch agency it is under the command and control of President Obama alone. If the CIA believes it is otherwise and acts under that delusion with its usual tired bag of dirty tricks supplemented by misinformation, disinformation, no information and just plain lies as obviously demonstrated by the groundless "debate" raging over the so-called "Panetta Report" which reportedly not only proves the CIA knowingly has provided "information" to those in the Senate who would oversee it which the CIA has known to be false (itself punishable when such lies are told to a Congressional Committee under sworn oath) but further which validates the 6,000+ page Torture Report painstakingly prepared by incredibly dedicated Senate staffers even in the face of every ridiculously incredibly costly to taxpayers burdensome obstacle, smokescreen and outright refusal the CIA could come up with to the point of hacking the computers of those charged with overseeing it and even further making serious allegations against its overseers for what if anything would appear to be nothing but its own ineptitude in releasing material most significantly the "Panetta Report" which it should have turned over willingly anyway yet instead persists in such uncooperative antagonistic behavior even further fabricating bogus non-existent privileges as if it were in litigation and represented by counsel either of such a low caliber and/or so morally bankrupt as to call to question their fitness to practice law, well then, Houston we have a problem here.
Very few people want to go to prison. No one wants to go to a secret ghastly CIA prison torture chamber. But the desperate fear of a group of torturers who have clearly broken laws prohibiting torture and now would go to any length to avoid punishment, government officials and/or agents or not, carries no weight at all in their trying to escape what now should be the inevitable consequences of their being tried in a court of law and if convicted serving the time for doing the crime. Especially when their actions have been so anathema to the most fundamental values which are the foundation of the United States Constitution and literally define this American nation which to the extent it has not fully achieved them always in practice nevertheless forever strives to bring itself closer to them.
No person and certainly not Dick Cheney of all people as well as those all the way down the line to those who were responsible for and those who carried out these horribly despicable atrocious heinous acts of torture should escape accountability. Moreover the United States Constitution has suffered far too much damage already as a result of their actions as any thinking American might imagine had the Founding Fathers believed that their incredibly miraculous work that summer over two and a quarter centuries ago in drafting the United States Constitution might create a country that could even possibly not only practice acts of crime against humanity but actually condone torture implicitly by failing to punish those responsible for its commission merely out of fear of their baseless bluster and constant attempts at bullying the Ninth Amendment editorial board believes the Founding Fathers would have been sickened to the point of vomiting at the thought of the creation of not a framework for government that would be an enduring model for and envy of the world but instead a monster that of course inevitably should and must crumble.
Finally perhaps the most immediately compelling reason to see the investigation and prosecution of these horrendous acts of torture through to their final conclusion have been widely noted to be captured by the characteristically thoughtless but in this case ominously laden words of Dick Cheney himself which the Center for Constitutional Rights highlights in its unequivocal statement of why the United States must without doubt "Prosecute CIA Torturers".
Stop calling it a "debate." There is nothing to debate. Torture is both illegal and immoral, plain and simple. Prosecuting torturers is not a new concept. As CCR's Baher Azmy argues in this op-ed for USA TODAY, "U.S. law specifically punishes torture as a war crime that carries a life sentence. And, under a treaty the U.S. helped draft and President Reagan signed in 1988, called the Convention Against Torture, there are no exceptions to allow for torture, even in extreme circumstances."http://usat.ly/1CvmoWO
The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board for interested/concerned readers concerning unapologetic attitudes of some other U.S. national security officials concerning their repeated illegal "official" actions violating core Constitutional rights including possible lead roles in ordering/condoning torture activities constituting human rights violations violating U.S. law and international signatory treaties and conventions for which they express not only no remorse but an apparent willingness immediately to engage in other similar illegal activities are referred to the Ninth Amendment 11 October 2014 post concerning General William C. Hayden which is linked to at http://waronnothing.blogspot.com/2014/10/we-kill-people-based-on-metadata.html.
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved (no claim to CCR content)
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