Wow!
Some have accused Amnesty International as an entity so far gone to the left that it has no longer any credibility after its executive director made the comment below when releasing AI's annual report:
"If the US government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior US officials involved in the torture scandal. And if those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them. The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998." See Statement Of Dr. William F. Schulz Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
But then I came up with this comment in defense of AI which was worth mentioning;
"Greg Fox said...
Agreed. Only those on the far left would make such accusations.
Obviously, Amnesty is only following the lead of that notoriously anti-American organization the American Bar Association, whose House of Delegates roundly condemned the torture memos, especially the opinions of government lawyers that sought to justify or excuse torture.
Other pinkos hewing to this line are the numerous military lawyers who complained that their normal oversight was being circumvented by Pentagon civilians.
There is also the group of 130 prominent lawyers -- again all screaming lefties -- who signed an open statement of condemnation; here's a brief quote from a news story about it: ""The lawyers who prepared and approved these memoranda have failed to meet their professional obligations," according to the statement, which was signed by, among others, former FBI director William Sessions, retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals John J. Gibbons, former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and former Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Abner Mikva, among others."
Finally, any collection of such lefty extremists must include the US prosecutors at Nuremburg, who, in United States v. Altstoetter, successfully charged Nazi lawyers who advised that the law of war of the time did not apply to POWs and others. I highly recommend Scott Horton's essay in the upcoming volume of the Torture Papers that shows how closely the reasoning of these German lawyers parallels that of the Executive Branch authors of the torture memos."
You be the judge.
"If the US government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior US officials involved in the torture scandal. And if those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them. The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998." See Statement Of Dr. William F. Schulz Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
But then I came up with this comment in defense of AI which was worth mentioning;
"Greg Fox said...
Agreed. Only those on the far left would make such accusations.
Obviously, Amnesty is only following the lead of that notoriously anti-American organization the American Bar Association, whose House of Delegates roundly condemned the torture memos, especially the opinions of government lawyers that sought to justify or excuse torture.
Other pinkos hewing to this line are the numerous military lawyers who complained that their normal oversight was being circumvented by Pentagon civilians.
There is also the group of 130 prominent lawyers -- again all screaming lefties -- who signed an open statement of condemnation; here's a brief quote from a news story about it: ""The lawyers who prepared and approved these memoranda have failed to meet their professional obligations," according to the statement, which was signed by, among others, former FBI director William Sessions, retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals John J. Gibbons, former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and former Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Abner Mikva, among others."
Finally, any collection of such lefty extremists must include the US prosecutors at Nuremburg, who, in United States v. Altstoetter, successfully charged Nazi lawyers who advised that the law of war of the time did not apply to POWs and others. I highly recommend Scott Horton's essay in the upcoming volume of the Torture Papers that shows how closely the reasoning of these German lawyers parallels that of the Executive Branch authors of the torture memos."
You be the judge.
posted by NBT at 17:49
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