Every day, I am becoming more and more obsessed with seeing these bastards from the Bush-Cheney team brought down and criminally convicted, whether it be at the Hague or in the U.S. Courts.
In the meantime, we get to hear the propagandistic spewings of this little army of criminal sociopaths, regurgitating their monsterous spin to the ever shrinking audience of true believers tuned in to Fox Noise, as was the case when Doug Feith accusedthe Spanish courts, trying to pursue justice, with engaging in an effort to "intimidate US government officials."
I'd argue that these monsters ought to be intimidated! Feith of course is a neocon and one of the main architects of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. I want to see him in a maximum security prison for the rest of his measly life.
some background: Here is Feith on 60 Minutes, still spewing the lies that Sadaam Hussein represented an imminent threat, justifying an invasion of Iraq. Notice how blatantly he lies! This interview, incidentally, was from April 6, 2008.
Feith for his apparent crimes is now under indictiment by Spain.
The complaint filed by the Association for the Dignity of Inmates also names John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote secret legal opinions saying President George W. Bush had the authority to circumvent the Geneva Conventions, and Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy.
The other Americans named are William Haynes II, former general counsel for the Department of Defense; Jay Bybee, Yoo's former boss at the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and David Addington, chief of staff and legal adviser to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney.
Feith is on record of having admitted to being a major player in Bush's torture policies
As author Jason Leopold points out,
On Sunday, Feith responded to the charges. He told the BBC he that "the charges as related to me make no sense."
"They criticize me for promoting a controversial position that I never advocated," Feith claimed.
But Feith’s denials ring hollow.
The allegations against Feith contained in the 98-page complaint filed in March 2008 by human rights lawyer Gonzalo Boye and the Association for the [Dignity] was largely gleaned from a lengthy interview Feith gave to international attorney and University College London professor Phillpe Sands. Sands is the author of "Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.
The other Bush officials named in the complaint are: former Justice Department attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee, Alberto Gonzales, Cheney’s counsel David Addington, and former Pentagon general counsel William Haynes, II. The charges cited in the complaint against these officials was also largely based on material Sands cited in his book about the roles they played in sanctioning torture.
Last year, in response to questions by Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, Condoleezza Rice, who, as National Security Adviser, was part of a working group that included Haynes, Yoo, Addington and Gonzales, said interrogation methods were discussed as early as the summer of 2002 and Yoo provided legal advice at "several" meetings that she attended. She said the DOJ’s advice on the interrogation program "was being coordinated by Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales."
Yoo met with Gonzales and Addington to discuss the subjects he intended to address in two August 2002 torture memos, according to a declassified summary of the Armed Services Committee report.
Feith’s was also included in the discussions.
Sands wrote that as early as 2002, "Feith’s job was to provide advice across a wide range of issues, and the issues came to include advice on the Geneva Conventions and the conduct of military interrogations."
Feith told Sands that he "played a major role in" George W. Bush’s decision to sign a Feb. 7, 2002 action memorandum suspending the Geneva Conventions for al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners who were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.
The memo did say that prisoners had to be treated "humanely," but Feith told Sands the verbiage needed "to be fleshed out." "But it’s a fine phrase—‘humane treatment,’" Feith added. Still, even with the phrase intact, the Common Article 3 restrictions against torture and "outrages upon personal dignity" were removed.
And yet, he still thinks that the Spanish courts are simply trying to "intimidate" the likes of himself!
He is a lying sack of shit, as are all the other figures indicted by Spain.