Did Everyone See The House Hearing On Guantanamo Bay and Interrogation Rules?

[orleans]

it certainly is worth watching.

(hopefully the link works)

Title: House Hearing on Guantanamo Bay and Interrogation Rules
Artist / Source C-SPAN
Copyright 2008 National Cable Satellite Corporation
File Name rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/ter/ter050608_guantanamo.rm

[seemslikeadream]

1. Professor Philippe Sands says it is likely Outside Jurisdictions will prosecute

torture

to Rep Mel Watt at the hearing

CRIMES WERE COMMITTED

EXTRADITE TO COUNTRY WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL WILL BE PROSECUTED


BECAUSE NOTHING HAS HAPPENED IN THE UNITED STATES


at
2:11:45

[orleans]

2. do you know if there is a transcript for this hearing? n/t

[seemslikeadream]

6. no but I'd really like to find one

it was incredible

[Wizard777]

9. There are extradition requests from Italy for 12 CIA Agents.

They kidnapped a man off the streets of Italy for rendition. I doubt those warrants will ever be honored.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. I saw it yesterday and it was stunning. Meanwhile not a whisper on MSM including

the press.

[spanone]

4. k&r

this is amazing to me. possible serious crimes fomenting from INSIDE the white house and the media shrugs....

it's easy to see the real enemy in this fight

[Misskittycat]

5. I had insomnia last night so I caught about an hour.

It was amazing. Unfortunately (or fortunately)I fell asleep for the rest. I hope C-Span repeats it several times, particularly on the weekend.

[seemslikeadream]

7. The last 10 minutes was the BEST- WATCH ANYTIME HERE

rtsp://video1.c-span.org/project/ter/ter050608_guantanamo.rm

[madokie]

11. Thanks I'm listening now

I've been saying all along that this is coming to a point where we are going to see justice done. This only makes me feel more strongly in my beliefs that our constitution and our democracy is stronger than a band of traitorously treasonous bastards. Its coming and I am prepared to take it all in. I've seen how it all works during the nixonian period and ending with his resignation. I have faith in our country ultimately doing the right thing.
peace

[seemslikeadream]

12. It will have to be a republican like Goldwater to tell the party......

THE PARTY IS OVER THE WORLD IS WATCHING

WE MUST AIR OUR DIRTY LAUNDRY OR ELSE THE WORLD WILL



WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THIS








I think that is what the dems are waiting for and I think it will happen

[Misskittycat]

13. I'll listen later this evening. Thanks. n/t

[seemslikeadream]

8. ‘If the US doesn’t address this,’

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/8/torture_team_british_attorney_philippe_sands

AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you, Philippe Sands, about the possibility of US officials being charged with war crimes. You were quoted in a New York Times piece on Tuesday: “Mr. Sands, a British law professor, said two foreign prosecutors, whom he did not name, asked him for the materials on which his book Torture Team was based. ‘If the US doesn’t address this,’ he said, ‘other countries will.’"

PHILIPPE SANDS: That’s an accurate account, and I describe, in one of the concluding chapters of the book, conversations I had with a European prosecutor and a European judge. And the committee was very interested in that, in relation to a question they asked me and the other witnesses giving testimony: “What should this committee do?” And the answer that I gave was, “Look, it’s not for me to make recommendations on precisely what you do and don’t do, but what needs to happen is the United States needs to get involved in an accounting process. The committee needs to establish the facts. And if the United States doesn’t, others will do it.” And I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever, that investigations will take place, if they’re not already taking place, and that some of these individuals, if they travel outside the United States, will face a very real threat of investigation.

AMY GOODMAN: And the legality of what President Bush said, or the implications of it, when he said to ABC News, “We started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people. Yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue, and I approved”?

PHILIPPE SANDS: Well, it appears to be an admission that the President of the United States authorized torture, that he authorized waterboarding. The convention prohibiting torture, the Geneva Conventions are absolutely clear: there are no circumstances in which torture is permitted. And if the account is accurate, the President is, in effect, owning up to the fact that he has committed a war crime. And under the torture convention, there is an obligation to investigate any person who has committed a war crime. So it was a very surprising admission. I wonder if it was fully thought through. If it’s accurate, it is deeply disturbing.

[annabanana]

10. Off to the Greatest with you!. . . n/t