After the torture report has been released, the world is up in arms against the Bush administration. On 21st December, Germany’s Human Rights Organization used an international lawyer against the Bush administration and filed charges for torturing an innocent man.
The article of NY Times came out on Monday where the editorial board asked the DOJ to prosecute major Bush administration officials, VP Dick Cheney and other people responsible for committing illegal, torturous and serious crimes. As per the editorial, Attorney General Eric Holder would be sent a personal letter by the ASLU (American Civil Liberties Union) for investigating the war crimes of Cheney and Bush officials.
However, the editorial also blames President Barack Obama for his inability to bring the war crime suspects to justice during his administration. The nation of United States has forever been stained by the atrocities of Cheney and Bush administration and bringing Tenet, Rice, Rumsfield, Bush and Cheney to justice would be a huge victory and would help the nation’s increasingly dinged up reputation when it comes to human rights.
The editorial went on to mention several names and also mentioned that CIA official Jose Rodriguez Jr. who was responsible for ordering the destruction of the involved videotapes must be indicted as well, apart from the psychologists would devised the inhuman and torturous regimen in the first place. Employees of CIA responsible for carrying out the dirty work were also mentioned in the editorial report of the NY Times and so were George Tenet, Jay Bybee and John Yoo.