CIA’s Rodriguez Lawyers Up

By Spencer Ackerman – December 14, 2007, 10:59AM
Blink and you’ll miss it in today’s New York Times piece on the House’s torture ban. But Jose Rodriguez, the CIA’s ex-operations director who ordered the interrogation tapes destroyed in late 2005, has hired one of Washington’s most prominent criminal attorneys:

Mr. Rodriguez has hired Robert S. Bennett, a well-known Washington lawyer, to represent him in Congressional and Justice Department inquiries into his handling of the tapes.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004908.php

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So why didn’t they?

Is the FBI as chickenshit as the rest of “law enforcement” hanging around Washington, DC?

If it showed illegal actions taking place, then it was their duty to arrest them, so why not?

Bush/Cheney/CIA tortures
Hague Trials ‘09

Buck Fush

http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/members/community/mboard/index.php?topic=38663.0

The US House has approved a bill that bans the CIA from using waterboarding, mock executions and other harsh interrogation methods.

The intelligence bill passed the House by a vote of 222 to 199. The bill still needs Senate approval before it can reach the White House, where President Bush has threatened a veto.

Bush claims the United States does not torture, but the administration will not disclose what interrogation methods it has approved for the CIA.

The measure requires intelligence agents to comply with the Army Field Manual, which bans torture in compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

The bill also blocks spending 70 percent of the intelligence budget until the House and Senate intelligence committees are briefed on the Israeli regime’s Sept. 6 air strike on an alleged nuclear site in Syria.

The 2008 intelligence budget is classified, but it is more than the USD 43b approved for 2007.

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail.aspx?id=34881&sectionid=3510203

http://www.redhotchilipeppers.com/

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Of course, one is still left wondering who decided not to arrest the CIA agents and why? And who’s starting to break ranks and release information?

Many people who wish to continue careers in federal government will continue to distance themselves from the neocons and the Bush administration. There’s still time for some of them to follow their conscience.

What’s terribly sad, however, is the near certainty that a generation of American military, and intelligence, personnel are going be judged by the actions of their leaders. And, when faced with evidence of wrong doing, they will respond that they “were just following orders”.

Will the wingnuts ever understand that they have been following illegal orders? I just hope the world is as forgiving of loyal Americans as they have been of others who have done evil out of misplaced loyalty.

Seriously, Some of those guys in the red hot chilli peppers are really sensitive to torture issues and the use of their music. Anthony did a commercial for Amnesty International. I can not imagine what may be going through flea or john or chad or anthony heads when they learn their gov’t used the rhcp music to torture. Now people will link (literally and figuratively) their music to the torture policies that bush admin has laid forth.

Maybe they can sue as a means to protest torture and to get more information into the public sphere. Cmon Warner Bros. How about it?

A UN investigator strongly suspects the CIA of using torture on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay – suggesting many were not being prosecuted to keep the abuse from emerging at trial.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B9EE5AE9-C2CA-464A-9A0E-DD721D6CDC72.htm

Comment by Keltoi at Night — December 13, 2007 @ 6:03 pm

Togas?

Doesn’t imply a military base.

Sorry, I forgot to answer the first part of your question and didn’t realize it until after I posted. The FBI does have a foreign counterintelligence unit that works closely with CIA / DIA

Does the FBI have juridisction on US military bases? If a detainee were on a base, wouldn’t that be considered US territory?

When a crime is committed on a military base, what laws apply? Do US laws apply to people on military bases? I don’t know the answers; I am really asking if anyone knows.

Comment by mo2 — December 13, 2007 @ 6:04 pm

The FBI does not have jurisdiction on military bases. That falls to the US Army Criminal Investigations Division (CID), the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) for the Air Force, and the Naval Criminal Investigations Division. I served with CID from 2000-2002 at Fort Hood, Texas.
When a crime is committed on a military base in the US, local state laws apply, but so does the UCMJ – Uniform Code of Military Justice. If they are overseas the SOFA applies – Status of Forces Agreement – this basically says we are subject to the laws of the host country – which is why we weren’t supposed to have alcohol or porn in Iraq.

Does the FBI have juridisction on US military bases? If a detainee were on a base, wouldn’t that be considered US territory?

When a crime is committed on a military base, what laws apply? Do US laws apply to people on military bases? I don’t know the answers; I am really asking if anyone knows.

Comment by Chris L — December 13, 2007 @ 5:59 pm

Throw in the sleep deprivation and blaring Rock music and then we really WILL have a frat party going…

was miraculously 6 years after capture they suddenly found his fingerprint on some dodgy document from Afghanistan alledgedly

SET UP …………..