The French judge has a torture confession from Gitmo

Our nation's commitment to torture under the Bush Administration has not just become a national embarassment - it's become an international problem. A French Judge announced Tuesday that he wants to visit Gitmo - and personally investigate allegations of torture and rape made by three former French inmates who served time in the facility. He's officialy sent a request to U.S. authorites on the matter. The three men making the allegations were arrested back in 2001 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border - then sent to Gitmo where they were tortured for years before being sent back to France to face trial and eventually be released. And earlier this week - a Spanish judge reopened an investigation into Bush Administration war crimes - including torture. And British officials now are investigating a CIA rendition program that may have involved torturing Libyans. So it looks like a decade of war crimes is finally catching up with us.

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[dayna57]

If they were held accountable for these crimes, it may help foreign relations that the US is slowly breaking down. Yes "WE NEED TO SPEAK UP!!"

[GrievanDark]

Obama doesn't want to be called a hypocrite. If he arrests Bush and Cheney, he'd have to arrest himself! Decisions decisions...

[Mikster1967]

Time to beat a confession out of emperor obama

[37Dionysos]

Why do they hate us? Idiot journalists (not Thom) aside, the U.S. signed treaties years ago that outlawed waterboarding and other tortures. So Bush/Cheney hiding behind their "lawyers" is meaningless. They should be arrested and imprisoned and Obama with them. He wants to "look forward" (and away from 9/11 and all the rest)----what a disgrace.

[TheeRawbee]

Absolute evidence of the corruption at the very top of political power. Voting is useless.

[sonofatiger]

I just which all the the nations of the world go George W.Bush and Dick Chaney for war crimes forw starting the wars with siting 911 so they would get the America people mad a fire up to got to war and killing the people that the twin towers. I think the America goverment will not do so because they thick the American people that voting for Bush will make them mad and someone will go after someone for it. and kill them. That is sad for America that the other Countrys has to do it to get it done

[bigtruckguy69]

Hang these scum to save America and prove we still follow the rule of law. We hung Japanese soldiers that waterboarded US prisoners during WWII, and we should do the same to these treasonous Fascists who propagate it's necessity.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

EXCELLENT news. Bring the system down.

[stonethugmusic]

...... " YOU'RE RIGHT " BUT WE WILL NOT DO THE RIGHT THING HERE "