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U.N. Official: Obama's Decision Not to Prosecute Torture Violates International Law
Fox News ^ | Aug 18, 2002

Posted on 04/18/2009 6:19:33 PM PDT by Hanna548

President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA operatives who used questionable interrogation practices violates international law, the U.N.'s top torture investigator said Saturday.

On Thursday, Obama absolved CIA officers from prosecution for harsh, painful interrogation of terror suspects under the former Bush administration. The announcement was met with disappointment from human rights groups and former detainees who condemned such methods as torture.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; obama; un
Since when can the UN tell what to do??
1 posted on 04/18/2009 6:19:33 PM PDT by Hanna548
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To: Hanna548

Not letting their Kenyan boy off easy, are they?

Now, how outraged do they get over daily practices in Mooseland?


2 posted on 04/18/2009 6:20:56 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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I say let’s turn this “Top Torture Investigator” over to a few imaginative Boy Scout troops.


3 posted on 04/18/2009 6:22:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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Since when can the UN tell what to do??

Get used to it. The UN will say jump and the Obama White House will say how high.

4 posted on 04/18/2009 6:23:00 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Hanna548
Since when can the UN tell what to do??

January 21st, 2009

5 posted on 04/18/2009 6:23:09 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: Hanna548

Looks like Obama is an international criminal.


6 posted on 04/18/2009 6:23:14 PM PDT by Brilliant
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What to do when the “One World Body” gets after the “Liberal Left” in the United States... sit back and pop the popcorn... LOL...


7 posted on 04/18/2009 6:24:31 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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lol....Good luck with your buddies at the UN, Idiot.


8 posted on 04/18/2009 6:25:01 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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"U.N. Official: Obama's Decision Not to Prosecute Torture Violates International Law"

Have THEY prosecuted their child rapists yet??? Hmmmm?

9 posted on 04/18/2009 6:27:42 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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Damned if he does, and damned if he doesn’t. The international moonbat brigade will never be satisfied, no matter how much he gives them.


10 posted on 04/18/2009 6:28:30 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

Careful!
Chrushchev put people into gulags in Siberia, not because they called him idiot, but because they revealed the state secret!


11 posted on 04/18/2009 6:32:45 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
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To: Hanna548

Funny Funny. Just quit writing the checks.


12 posted on 04/18/2009 6:34:44 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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What about these agents? We cannot allow them to prosecute these guys for following orders!!


13 posted on 04/18/2009 6:43:48 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: Hanna548

The left is chomping at the bit for a little political persecution, and I bet 0 will eventually give it to them. What goes around, comes around. 0 and his idiotic minions will find out that their political enemies here at home will not march peacefully off to the reeducation camps.


14 posted on 04/18/2009 6:53:53 PM PDT by pallis
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Since Obama declared it Torture, he trapped himself.

He either has to prosecute Bush and the CIA or declare that it isn’t torture after all.

The irony is stunning, Obama has to surrender a major political point.


15 posted on 04/18/2009 7:18:00 PM PDT by dila813
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Well I’ll tell you this, they try to prosecute those guys I will hide them in my basement. That is the most outrageous thing I have ever heard in my life and considering I have lived under the Obama administration for nearly 100 days thats saying something.


16 posted on 04/18/2009 7:24:34 PM PDT by Hanna548 (s)
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To: Always Right
The UN will say jump and the Obama White House will say how high.

Only if we let it.

17 posted on 04/19/2009 1:06:07 PM PDT by ex91B10
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