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Could we expect the war criminals responsible for this be prosecuted now?

• CodesInChaos 7y ago
  You're not a war criminal unless you lose the war.
  • java-man 7y ago
    Unfortunately, this is the reality.
• noident 7y ago
  Nope! Because the Office of Legal Counsel made a good faith effort when they (incorrectly) opined torture was legal, none of the torturers will be held liable. After all, the government told them it was legal. It doesn't matter that the OLC later decided that torture is in fact illegal. The "torture memos" article on Wikipedia has more details. tl;dr blame John Yoo
  • anon9001 7y ago
    Ah the good old days, when state crimes required a facade of reasonability, an abundance of ass-covering, and the assurance of good-faith.
  • chopin 7y ago
    That's the Nuremberg defense. It's a valid defense if you are on the winning side.
• colanderman 7y ago
  Or at least, the New York Times to stop publishing op-eds by those war criminals. (The Times pretty regularly features op-eds by Rumsfeld, and had one by John Yoo just a couple days ago.)
  • cududa 7y ago
    I was appalled by that Yoo piece/ them giving him that platform
• rtkwe 7y ago
  It's a long shot. That'd require either 1) an administration to prosecute them in our own courts or 2) the US to surrender people to the ICC or something. The US has historically been reluctant to do 2 because the US doesn't want to have the liability of actually following international law. The first is also somewhat unlikely because it would be the kind of thing that consumes a lot of an administrations time and political capital that they'd much rather spend passing new legislation.