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Friday, April 17, 2009

SPANISH JUDGE MOVES TO KEEP GITMO CASE ALIVE

A day after memos were released detailing even more “harsh interrogation” practices authorized by the Bush Administration, Spanish prosecutors signaled that the country’s proposed torture probe was “all but doomed.”
“Spanish prosecutors on Friday formally recommended against an investigation into allegations that six senior Bush administration officials gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay,” the Associated Press reports.
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CNN reports,
A Spanish judge moved Friday to keep alive an investigation into six former Bush administration officials for alleged torture of prisoners at the U.S. detention camp for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba.
He acted just hours after prosecutors urged the case to be dropped, according to a court document.
Reuters adds,
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case on Friday.
But Judge Baltasar Garzon, internationally known for trying to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accepted that he might not personally take charge of any eventual criminal investigation into officials including former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
The Reuters report continues, “In a ruling on Friday, Garzon ignored this advice but also avoided a direct confrontation with the attorney general’s office by submitting the case to a lottery system which will now assign it at random to one of the six high court judges.”
“Let it be assigned to the corresponding court,” Garzon’s ruling stated.
“The judge who gets the case will now have to decide whether to go ahead of it,” the Reuters article continues. “Under the system, Garzon will have a one in six chance of getting the case back.” LinkHere

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