THE CENTER for Constitutional Rights has filed papers encouraging Judge Eloy Velasco and the Spanish national court to do what the United States will not: prosecute the "Bush Six." These are the former senior administration legal advisers, headed by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who violated international law by creating a legal framework that materially contributed to the torture of suspected terrorists at U.S.-run facilities at Guantánamo and other overseas locations.
Our filing provides Judge Velasco with the legal framework for the prosecution of government lawyers--a prosecution that last took place during the Nuremberg trials, when Nazi lawyers who provided cover for the Third Reich's war crimes and crimes against humanity were held accountable for their complicity.
CCR would prefer to see American cases tried in American courts. But we have joined the effort to pursue the Bush Six overseas because two successive American presidents have made it clear that there will be no justice for the architects of the U.S. torture program, or any of their accomplices, on American soil.
Thanks to the U.S. diplomatic cables recently released by WikiLeaks, we now know why seeking justice abroad has also been fraught with difficulty--why there have been so many delays and even dismissals. The same U.S. government that will not pursue justice at home--not even when the CIA destroys 92 videotapes that show detainees being tortured, has put a heavy thumb on the scales of justice in other countries as well.
http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/10/the-bush-six-and-justice
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