Spanish human rights attorney: ‘I would recommend that Mr. Feith…get a very good lawyer.’
Spanish human rights attorney: ‘I would recommend that Mr. Feith…get a very good lawyer.’
Last week, a Spanish court agreed to consider “opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials…over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay.” Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith said the charges “make no sense,” adding, “they criticize me for promoting a controversial position that I never advocated.” Gonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers filing the complaint, responded to Feith, saying, “If they [Bush officials] are innocent, they shouldn’t be afraid” to come to court:
“I would recommend that Mr. Feith first of all read the complaint, and secondly that he get a very good lawyer,” Boye said. “If he is so sure of what he is saying — then the address of the national court is #22 Genova Street, second floor.”
Feith often expresses amnesia about his central role in approving torture. “I strongly championed a policy of respect” for the Geneva Conventions, he told Congress last year. In reality, British international lawyer Philippe Sands reported that Feith “took the steps to ensure that none of these detainees could rely on Geneva.”
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I predict an almost troll free post…
Until the racists show up to belittle the people of Spain.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:43 amThis time the MSM has picked up the story. Like a snowball going down a snow hill…….. Lets hope it gets bigger and bigger and bigger…..
March 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am“If they [Bush officials] are innocent, they shouldn’t be afraid” to come to court
In the words of Flounder from Animal House:
OH BOY, THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:47 ampaging the US Justice Dept……..
March 30th, 2009 at 10:47 amSpanish human rights attorney: ‘I would recommend that Mr. Feith…get a very good lawyer.’
– - Fredo Gonzalez is still looking for work, Dougie. Oh wait, the judge said a “very good lawyer.” Nevermind.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:47 amThis creates fantasies of testimony that eventually implicates cheney.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:50 amI feel like I’ve been waiting to exhale. This is very welcome news. This time around, I hope these treasonous criminals will NOT get a pardon!
BTW, let the trolls come.
Remember, Every time a troll is zinged and angel gets its wings!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:51 amTime to build a “special” prison to house all the Bushco criminals: codemane GitNO. It’ll be just like a resort, including sports such as waterboarding and an all you can eat intra-nasal buffet!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:53 amFeith is a lying piece of scum. Bet he doesn’t show up for court. He is nothing but a yellow elephant.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:54 amYes, let some heads roll. Let the prosecutions begin!
March 30th, 2009 at 10:54 amGonzalo Boye, one of the lawyers filing the complaint, responded to Feith, saying, “If they [Bush officials] are innocent, they shouldn’t be afraid” to come to court:
How appropriate: using the bush administration’s own justification, “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve nothing to fear…,” for spying, illegal search and any number of civil liberties violations.
Priceless…
March 30th, 2009 at 10:56 amTorture and extraordinary rendition
March 30th, 2009 at 10:58 amFrom the Project for a New American Inquisition
And who cares about the Geneva Convention
When you are part of the Bush cabal
But a Spanish investigation
Of the world’s allegations
May lead to your incarceration
And who will care about how hard you fall
Time to check all the countries that have extradition agreements with Spain. The traveling arrangements for the former Bush cronies have just gotten a lot more difficult.
This is getting very interesting.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:58 amLest we forget:
Douglas Feith is “the stupidest f**king guy on the face of the planet.” According to General Tommy Franks.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:59 amLike the Nazi in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” once said:
Waterboard zem. Waterboard zem all.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:00 amDaddy-O Says:
Douglas Feith is “the stupidest f**king guy on the face of the planet.” According to General Tommy Franks.
– - Dougie is SO stupid he’d call Franks as a character witness.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:01 am– Fredo Gonzalez is still looking for work, Dougie.
Fredo’s gonna need his OWN lawyer.
I’m disgustipated. The only people on Earth willing to put these world-class criminals on trial are in Spain? After they’ve destroyed the economy, America’s reputation, millions of lives, and eight long years of failure?
March 30th, 2009 at 11:02 amWe’ll never get Dumbya, and Darth Cheney will ingest cyanide before anybody takes him to the pokey, but nailing that smug bastard Feith would bring some measure of satisfaction.
Viva Spain!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:03 amI hope spanish inquisition ‘09 doesn’t just use ‘the fluffy pillow’ and ‘comfy chair’ on them.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:04 amI’m disgustipated. The only people on Earth willing to put these world-class criminals on trial are in Spain? After they’ve destroyed the economy, America’s reputation, millions of lives, and eight long years of failure?
NEWSFLASH:
The majority of Americans don’t give a shit about America or it’s reputation, so long as they can drive an overpriced, piece of shit American car and fill it with 2 dollar gas while on the way to Wal Mart to buy dangerous products made in China while their fellow American worker stands in a food line.
Democracy is failing, and nobody really cares, so long as they “get theirs first”.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:06 amNodoby expects the Spainish Inquisition!! Bring in the comfy Chair!!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:07 amAs if predicted, MSM is totally ignoring this story. How depressing. Why do I have to wait until Oberman or Maddow air this? Why can’t CNN, MSNBC, and the others at least cover this story.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:08 amWho would’ve guessed the Spanish would be the ones to step up to the moral plate and actually do something. Maybe they were insulted by the comparison of the bush torture machine to the Spanish Inquisition.
Who cares anyway as long as everyone in WHIG is hung till dead.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:10 amA Spanish court beats Congress and The Justice Department to the punch? Sad days for third world America.
I’m waiting for Bush and Cheney to be added. They’ve all but confessed in the media comments.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:13 amMSM forgets to easily.I don’t.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:15 amI’d recommend Feith hire Alberto Gonzalez–he could do with the job.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:18 amI’ve seen Fieth on C-Span a couple times and watched him regurgitate disproven Bush-doctrine to save his rep. He is an insufferable liar.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:20 amThat pasty-faced fat ass won’t make it past the first week in prison.
Addington is another fcuker I want to see nailed.
Thank you, Spain, for doing the job the U.S. Dept. of Justice doesn’t seem to have the stomach (or spine or…) to accomplish. But it looks like Holder will be forced to step up to the plate if they don’t want these guys tried overseas.
PEACE
March 30th, 2009 at 11:20 am#28, just what I was thinking.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:23 amGonzalez: Did you write a memo supporting torture by the US?
March 30th, 2009 at 11:24 amFeith: I don’t recall.
Gonzalez: You don’t recall what?
Feith: What you asked me.
Gonzalez: What did I ask you?
Feith: I don’t recall. Ask me again.
Gonzalez: I don’t recall the question.
As delusional and pathological as Feith, Pearle, Rumsfeld and the other neocons are, I’m sure they feel their BS talking points will baffle and dazzle the Spanish and World Courts as well as they did Matthews, O’Reilly, and Hannity.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:29 amPoetic justice would have these bootlickers represented by the best and brightest from Regent University. If they were good enough for the Bush Administration to be the State AGs then they’re good enough to defend these bastids.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:36 amIt wont happen. The elite in this country are untouchable.
I’ve gotta applaud the rhetoric though, they are “considering” “opening” a “criminal case” against “oficials” how impotent.
I’ve read for a while now that several enteties were think about or considering maybe doing something about something to somebody who may or may not have done something that some think they should not have done….yawn.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:37 amD. Feith is a WAR CRIMINAL! Let the presure and the FUN begins!!!!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:39 amHang the bastards!
I hope thr WAR CRIMINALS Rice and Chenney are feeling the heat!
March 30th, 2009 at 11:46 amHey Obama! When are you going to appoint a special Prosecuter and let the rule of law take its course????!
Just barfed through O’rapeys charm offensive on ‘the view’.They tried to bring up Iraq but O’rieda said that was in the past he’s running from. All apologists.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:46 amI wonder how ‘bush-loyal’ the main players would be when faced with plea-bargining, literally, for their life.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:51 amHe never left the country before he was president, definitely not now.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:55 amI wonder if he got frequent torture miles from all those renditions.Or friendition as they used to call it.
March 30th, 2009 at 11:58 am“If they [Bush officials] are innocent, they shouldn’t be afraid” to come to court
Isn’t that the mantra of the Repubs – If they’re innocent, what do they have to hide ?
March 30th, 2009 at 12:09 pmJust another instance of another country having the balls to do something we don’t want to do.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pmIt’s shameful that other countries have more respect for the rule of law than the lawyer and former Constitutional professor who is now our President. At least the “two-tiered class-based system of justice” is not as rampant around the globe as it is in the U.S.
Congrats to the Bushies on recieving their “Get Out War Crimes Free” card from President O’bama.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:31 pmWhile I am heartened by the Actions of the Spanish regarding the Bush Crime Family, until I hear of indictments, I won’t get too excited.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:52 pmP.D. Actually, I did see this on CNN Saturday and Sunday.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:55 pmI also saw it in some large newspapers around the country.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:03 pmprivate bounties are legal in the USA. i am currently supporting one that will reward whomever lets us know who our local spray paint artist is.
how can it be illegal to support a private bounty in another country? when will the international bounty on this bunch of crooks be issued? how do i support it? if they open a paypal account, i will happily give them $20 a week until somebody snatches them off the street and ships them to spain for the reward.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:20 pmIt’s sad that you have to go outside the United States of America to find justice these days. I hope they hang Doug Feith by his feet from a rotten tree for thirty years.
March 30th, 2009 at 1:58 pmObama is never going to allow a Leftist Spanish Eurotrash Court to extradite and prosecute former Admin. officials on no basis at all. They have no jurisdiction.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:10 pmPersonaly I hope Fieth gets himself the best attorney trading stamps can buy and marches into court as Bush-arrogant as he can. Maybe he could call up Dick Cheney as a charachtor witnes.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:12 pmgoing to orbitz… gonna get me some plane tix to madrid, watch them get frog marched into the court in cuffs, waving my american flag screaming, “DRILL BABY DRILL”
March 30th, 2009 at 3:19 pm______
speshuled67 (locust in training) Says:
going to orbitz… gonna get me some plane tix to madrid, watch them get frog marched into the court in cuffs, waving my american flag screaming, “DRILL BABY DRILL”
March 30th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
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Make sure you can trade those tickets in when you finally realize it’ll never happen. ;)
March 30th, 2009 at 3:57 pmYou will see shortly the problem of conservatism.
March 30th, 2009 at 4:37 pmAin’t gonna get Feith…he’s “chosen”. Just like Wolfie, Pearle, Scooter and others.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:47 pm#54 – Silence is Golden Says:
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I’ve seen the problem and you is it moron!!
March 30th, 2009 at 6:05 pmHey Silence,
Tell me that story again about how you didn’t vote for GW Botch in 2008!! He wasn’t on the ballot you idiot!!
Haahah ahaha ahabahaha ahaha …. Hahaaha,hahaha,hahaha…
Soooooo stupid and funny too…you should be in politics….
hahahah….hahahhahhaaaa..a.ahhhhhaaaaa
March 30th, 2009 at 6:08 pmdixie blood Says:
Hey Silence,
“Tell me that story again about how you didn’t vote for GW Botch in 2008!! He wasn’t on the ballot you idiot!!”
That was a jibe at the fact you drone on about Bush this and that, and Obama is President. It went over your head Einstein
March 30th, 2009 at 7:17 pmSig,
It actually didn’t moron because you put up a perfectly, pristine, political reason that contained no set up to a joke. Nothing….Nothing…No set up to a joke!!! Liar!!!! Go back and read your moronic sh|t!!!
Your were pwned!!! Face it a$$hole!!!!!
Keep it up RePugniScum beotch…
March 30th, 2009 at 8:05 pmSiG says
Actually it’s over your head…Dick.
March 30th, 2009 at 8:12 pmIt would be nice to see little Dougie in the stripey hole, but I don’t expect they’ll get him there.
Still, the world, if not the country, would be a better place if the lot of these asshats couldn’t leave the country for fear of losing their liberty.
March 30th, 2009 at 9:12 pm.
Hi Golden Showers,
I have a math problem for you:
What does 2am + a drunk girl + scantily clothed + alone on the highway = ?
Or a political quiz:
Care to discuss how Liberals are Fascists?
Baby wipes not included today!
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March 31st, 2009 at 2:25 am.
R E M E M B E R:
Tha House Madame took the remedy “OFF THE TABLE”…
… And her appeasers stood by and said, “O.K.”!
Damned be the 108th-110th Congress for their tacit permissiveness and their lack of willingness to abide to their Oath of Office. For IF they had the courage and fortitude, this National embarrassment would have been our own. But because the players of those Congress’ shrugged their sworn Oath and Duty to the Nation, that shame is seem around the world.
Constituents, you know what you should do. Yet somehow don’t.
America, you know what you should do. Yet somehow won’t.
Some world leader….
March 31st, 2009 at 2:29 am