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Obama sticks to Bush stance on torture suit President Obama’s Justice Department signaled in a San Francisco courtroom Monday that the change in administrations has not changed the government’s position on secrecy and the rights of foreign prisoners – and that lawsuits by alleged victims of CIA kidnappings and torture must be dismissed on national security grounds. « Judges shouldn’t play with fire, » Justice Department lawyer Douglas Letter told the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considering a suit accusing a San Jose company, Jeppesen Dataplan, of arranging so-called extraordinary rendition flights for the CIA. Letter said the Justice Department’s position, previously argued by the administration of former President George W. Bush, has been « thoroughly vetted with appropriate officials of the new administration. » « Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama’s Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on this important civil liberties issue, » the American Civil Liberties Union executive director, Anthony Romero, said after the hearing. |
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J’ai l’impression que dans quelques années, quand on saura ce qui c’est vraiment passé durant la présence de Bush, on apprendra qu’il a sauver les USA d’une attaque terroriste massive.
C’est probablement pour ça qu’Obama n’ose plus s’opposer aux politique de Bush. Il doit savoir ce qui s’est passé durant la présidence de W.
Je rêve où aucun média québécois n’a repris cette histoire?