Monday, 19 January 2015, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - A Malaysian International War Crimes Tribunal comprised of a five senior judge panel (the "Tribunal") consistent with the Nuremberg Charter which reportedly scrupulously adhered to the regulations of the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts in 2012 tried in abstenia not-really-elected "President" George W. Bush, Vice-President "Pigheart" Dick "Criminal Notorious" Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld (former Nixon appointee, anti-FOIA fanatic, recruiter of Cheney as federal official, bribed by G.D. Searle to get aspartame approved despite FDA finding unacceptable risk of brain cancer, resigned in disgrace in 2006 after engineering illegal U.S. failed Afghanistan and Iraq quagmires, wrote autobiography detailing steps guaranteed to get one into hell) as well as their hack lawyers Alberto Gonzales (Bush personal lawyer who wrote legal opinion okaying obviously unconstitutional NSA "Operation PRISM" dragnet domestic spying of all U.S. citizens only copy of which then was kept in his office safe so no one could see his hack "legal analysis"), David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo all of whom the Tribunal found guilty as war criminals for torture and inhumane, cruel and degrading treatment.
According to the below linked Foreign Policy Journal (the "Journal") article:
According to the below linked Foreign Policy Journal (the "Journal") article:
The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a “reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan and Iraq.”The Journal reported that testimony included that of Iraqi and British citizens from whom:
The court heard how
- Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
- Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
- Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
- Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
Finally the Journal reported that upon the Tribunal's handing down of a unanimous guilty verdict finding Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzaler, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo to be war criminals the Tribunal stated that although it had no custodial authority of the war criminals that:
The Ninth Amendment at this time does not yet have information what actions if any the International Criminal Court as well as the United Nations and the Security Council may have initiated or plan against convicted war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo or "other commanders and CIA officials" not charged here but identified by the Tribunal as having been engaged in the same torture and war crimes conspiracy.
Although it is evident that to date no torture and war crimes or other criminal actions have yet been referred by the Obama White House to the Department of Justice ("DOJ") nor any international tribunal for prosecution DOJ previously having defended itself by saying that the CIA sought a legal opinion as to its commission of acts of torture and detainment and confinement which the DOJ dutifully cleared by "legal analysis" but since has claimed the CIA lied to DOJ about the extent of its actions in seeking the opinion. Similarly the Bush White House which as the head of the executive branch was responsible for all actions of the CIA which is an executive branch agency claimed that the CIA lied to it about the extent of its commission of war crimes and torture.
CIA officials claim that although the CIA did not mismanage its war crimes and torture program it was unaware of the extent of the activities of its operatives and contractors. One unidentified CIA employee however was sent home early after he was found to have "anger management and control issues" after he threatened a "detainee" with a pistol and electric drill and forced the "detainee" to play Russian Roulette with him although the employee subsequently faced no punishment or discipline from the CIA.
The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence (SSCI) Bush CIA Torture Report released a 524 page redacted executive summary of the otherwise classified 6,000 page Torture Report which concludes that CIA officials did and have continued to lie repeatedly to the United States Congress about its actions. The former chair of the SSCI Senator Dianne Feinstein in an extraordinary forty-five (45) minute speech on the Senate floor detailed how the CIA and delayed and obstructed the SSCI from fulfilling its oversight duties of the CIA.
This included the CIA referring apparently bogus charges with DOJ against Senate staffers of the SSCI from somehow hacking into CIA computers although the CIA computers were completely segregated including at a different physical location from those used by the staffers. The SSCI concluded that this most likely was an attempt by the CIA to "intimidate" SSCI staffers while actually it was determined and later admitted by the CIA that it at this time was hacking into Senate computers allegedly to conduct an investigation of its own legislative branch overseers.
The main impetus for this more recent flurry of activities by the CIA apparently was its alarm over having released to the SSCI staffers probably either by mistake or a whistleblower a document come to be known as the "Panetta Report" so-called because it was prepared under the direction of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and which apparently definitively proves that the CIA not only misled Congress but actually knew it was doing so and therefore CIA officials were in fact lying under oath to Congress. Members of the SSCI have reviewed the Panetta report and have since not released it but kept it secured in a safe in a Senate office building.
The CIA has continued to complain that the report was stolen by SSCI staffers. The CIA also has attempted to assert numerous non-existent privileges as to the "Panetta Report" and other documents apparently accidentally released relating to the allegedly partially "draft" status of the "Panetta Report" as well as other privileges familiar to federal prosecutors such as ones apparently derived from the "deliberative process" privilege and others seemingly akin to the "work product" or "attorney-client" privilege none of which privileges Senator Feinstein pointed out are recognized by the Senate.
What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.The Journal reported that there may be some countries that these convicted war criminals have avoided and others that may have interfered with their prosecution despite the "duty" of all countries to prosecute convicted war criminals under the doctrine of "universal jurisdiction" established with the conviction of fellow war criminal former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was arrested in Britain and turned over to Spain for prosecution for his commission of war crimes.
The Ninth Amendment at this time does not yet have information what actions if any the International Criminal Court as well as the United Nations and the Security Council may have initiated or plan against convicted war criminals Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and Yoo or "other commanders and CIA officials" not charged here but identified by the Tribunal as having been engaged in the same torture and war crimes conspiracy.
Although it is evident that to date no torture and war crimes or other criminal actions have yet been referred by the Obama White House to the Department of Justice ("DOJ") nor any international tribunal for prosecution DOJ previously having defended itself by saying that the CIA sought a legal opinion as to its commission of acts of torture and detainment and confinement which the DOJ dutifully cleared by "legal analysis" but since has claimed the CIA lied to DOJ about the extent of its actions in seeking the opinion. Similarly the Bush White House which as the head of the executive branch was responsible for all actions of the CIA which is an executive branch agency claimed that the CIA lied to it about the extent of its commission of war crimes and torture.
CIA officials claim that although the CIA did not mismanage its war crimes and torture program it was unaware of the extent of the activities of its operatives and contractors. One unidentified CIA employee however was sent home early after he was found to have "anger management and control issues" after he threatened a "detainee" with a pistol and electric drill and forced the "detainee" to play Russian Roulette with him although the employee subsequently faced no punishment or discipline from the CIA.
The Senate Select Committee On Intelligence (SSCI) Bush CIA Torture Report released a 524 page redacted executive summary of the otherwise classified 6,000 page Torture Report which concludes that CIA officials did and have continued to lie repeatedly to the United States Congress about its actions. The former chair of the SSCI Senator Dianne Feinstein in an extraordinary forty-five (45) minute speech on the Senate floor detailed how the CIA and delayed and obstructed the SSCI from fulfilling its oversight duties of the CIA.
This included the CIA referring apparently bogus charges with DOJ against Senate staffers of the SSCI from somehow hacking into CIA computers although the CIA computers were completely segregated including at a different physical location from those used by the staffers. The SSCI concluded that this most likely was an attempt by the CIA to "intimidate" SSCI staffers while actually it was determined and later admitted by the CIA that it at this time was hacking into Senate computers allegedly to conduct an investigation of its own legislative branch overseers.
The main impetus for this more recent flurry of activities by the CIA apparently was its alarm over having released to the SSCI staffers probably either by mistake or a whistleblower a document come to be known as the "Panetta Report" so-called because it was prepared under the direction of former CIA Director Leon Panetta and which apparently definitively proves that the CIA not only misled Congress but actually knew it was doing so and therefore CIA officials were in fact lying under oath to Congress. Members of the SSCI have reviewed the Panetta report and have since not released it but kept it secured in a safe in a Senate office building.
The CIA has continued to complain that the report was stolen by SSCI staffers. The CIA also has attempted to assert numerous non-existent privileges as to the "Panetta Report" and other documents apparently accidentally released relating to the allegedly partially "draft" status of the "Panetta Report" as well as other privileges familiar to federal prosecutors such as ones apparently derived from the "deliberative process" privilege and others seemingly akin to the "work product" or "attorney-client" privilege none of which privileges Senator Feinstein pointed out are recognized by the Senate.
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/
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