Friday, December 12, 2008

Mukasey Sees No Necessity for Pardons in Terror War

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/us/04justice.html?scp=1&sq=mukasey%20sees%20no%20necessity%20for%20pardons&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Subject: Mukasey Sees No Necessity for Pardons in Terror War
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:
    If our Attorney General sees need for neither prosecutions nor pardons for torture committed by agents of the Executive, it may be because he doesn't understand our treaty obligations. When the U.S. signed on to the Torture Convention of 1984, it became the supreme law in the land. Any American who has tortured since then has violated our treaty obligations. According to our constitution, that's a "high crime". I look forward to a United States that reclaims its place in the community of nations. If that doesn't start with honoring our treaty obligations, we won't have achieved the change we voted for.
Barry Levine

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