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jtrockville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 05:21 PM
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9. Spain is still pursuing their case, though Cheney is not named.
From September 2009, the Spanish suit names Gonzales, Yoo, Feith, Haynes, Bybee, and Addington. Maybe one of them will squeal on Cheney:

The Spanish newspaper Público reported exclusively on Saturday that Judge Baltasar Garzón, who sits on the Criminal Court of Spain, is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

Back in March, Judge Garzón announced that he was planning to investigate the six prime architects of the Bush administration’s torture policies — former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; John Yoo, a former lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, who played a major role in the preparation of the OLC’s notorious “torture memos”; Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy; William J. Haynes II, the Defense Department’s former general counsel; Jay S. Bybee, Yoo’s superior in the OLC, who signed off on the August 2002 “torture memos”; and David Addington, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff.

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http://pubrecord.org/torture/4831/spanish-judge-resumes-torture-against/
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