Spanish court considers trying former US officials

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MADRID, – A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.

Human rights lawyers brought the case before leading anti-terror judge Baltasar Garzon, who agreed to send it on to prosecutors to decide whether it had merit, Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers who brought the charges, told The Associated Press.

The ex-Bush officials are Gonzales; former undersecretary of defense for policy Douglas Feith; former Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff David Addington; Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee; and Pentagon lawyer William Haynes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_us_torture

[NV Whino]

1. Go for it!

Fry those smirking little bastards.

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2. Which one will turn on the others first?

I say Yoo.

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3. I'd say Feith

He's got the purtiest mouth.

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4. And just how embarrassing is this?

Spain, home to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, best friends with Hitler's Germany not so very long ago, is willing to hold the United States to its treaty obligations and the rule of law. Meanwhile, the United States, bulwark of democracy and leader of the free world, doesn't dare even investigate its own actions.