Spanish judge defies pressure to scrap Guantanamo torture case against Bush

[MindMover]

Source: Raw Story

A Spanish judge on Tuesday defied pressure to scrap a probe into alleged torture in the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay which targets former U.S. president George W. Bush.

Judge Pablo Ruz at the National Court, in a written decision, refused to scrap the case despite a recent reform to restrict such human rights probes in Spain.

He also vowed to press on with two other investigations into alleged genocide in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara from the 1970s.

Ruz opened the investigations under universal jurisdiction — a principle that allows judges to try certain atrocities committed in other countries.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/15/spanish-judge-defies-pressure-to-scrap-guantanamo-torture-case-against-bush/

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Maybe a USA judge and jury can use this judges findings .... I said maybe ...

[Chemisse]

1. Well maybe SOMEBODY on this earth will condemn Bush

Clearly the US has no appetite for it.

[Politicalboi]

2. Let's hope this goes somewhere

They need to go after Cheney more than Bush. Bush truly was a "puppet".

[MindMover]

3. It is called willful ignorance or blindness ... he can be held accountable ....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[dembotoz]

5. maybe we can get him to go to spain to display his paintings

[Jefferson23]

6. So they are freaking out. K&R

[LW1977]

7. Looking into prosecuting a war criminal?

Perrish the thought!

[MindMover]

8. Yes, could be, maybe so, perish the thought, prosecute war criminals ...

Welcome to DU

[Cha]

9. thank you, MindMover!

[Exposethefrauds]

10. It is good to see Spain wanting to see justice served unlike the current adminstration who used it's

power and influence to block earlier investigations by Spain into war crimes committed by Bush and Co. In my book that would be called obstruction of justice, but at least I know nothing will happen in the US with this so people should not get their hopes up.. The real criminals will walk away free and it will happen again and those in power will protect them.

[ChazInAz]

11. Let's make it easy

Perhaps we should charge him with murder, as Bugliosi suggested.

[hue]

12. A candle of hope!! Thanks for posting!!