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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:55 AM
Subject: re: Lawsuit Aims to Hold 2 Contractors Accountable for C.I.A. Torture
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
To the Editor:
The job description for the POTUS is laid out in our Constitution. The president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" Yet "Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it [or executing in] has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” his administration declined to prosecute any government officials."
The job description for the POTUS is laid out in our Constitution. The president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" Yet "Nearly 15 years after the United States adopted a program to interrogate terrorism suspects using techniques now widely considered to be torture, no one involved in helping craft it [or executing in] has been held legally accountable. Even as President Obama acknowledged that the United States “tortured some folks,” his administration declined to prosecute any government officials."
It remains for the Civil Courts to pursue justice where our Executive prefers to turn a blind eye. Prosecutorial discretion has run amok here, effectively nullifying our criminal law code.
Mitchell and Jessen are not uniquely responsible for the U.S. torture program. Responsibility for that is shared up and down the chain of command from president George W. Bush to the private who held the leash. But they're the two have aren't shielded from justice by our CIA and military establishments.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/lawsuit-aims-to-hold-2-contractors-accountable-for-cia-torture.html
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