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FINALLY Someone's Prosecuted (and not in absentia) for U.S. Torture -- And It's Poland That Comes Through
Poland Charges Ex-Spy Chief over Involvement in Bush Torture Program
From ALL GOV .COM
Zbigniew Siemiatkowski (photo: Tomasz Urbanek, East News)
Unlike President Barack Obama, who has refused to prosecute American intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, leaders in Poland have charged their former top spymaster for helping the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) imprison detainees in their country.
Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, the former head of Poland’s intelligence service, faces charges of violating international law by “unlawfully depriving prisoners of their liberty” while allowing the CIA to hold and interrogate detainees at a secret base near Szymany Airport, north of Warsaw. Siemiatkowski was the intelligence chief from 2002 to 2004, the period when the CIA prison in Poland was in operation.
The New York Times reported that all three of the CIA prisoners who are known to have been waterboarded spent time in Poland, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11, 2001, attacks; Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is charged in the 2000 bombing of the American destroyer Cole; and Abu Zubaydah, who ran a terrorist camp and facilitated militants’ travel.
The Polish media reported that former Prime Minister Leszek Miller, who served in office last decade while the extraordinary renditions took place, may, at the least, be called to testify. Poland’s president at the time, Aleksander Kwasniewski, has said that he didn’t know about the CIA prison until U.S. President George W. Bush thanked him during a visit to Poland in June 2003. Bush’s thanks were “so profuse” that Kwasniewski knew “something was not right” considering that Polish support for U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq had been relatively limited.
“We try to treat our Constitution seriously and try not to forget the fact that there was a manifest violation of the Polish Constitution within the country’s borders,” Adam Bodnar, vice president of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, based in Warsaw, told The New York Times. He added, “I remember the lessons of constitutionality given by the Americans in the early ’90s, always saying to us, you have to create a new constitution and every action by state authorities must have limits. Poland has just learned this lesson well.”
-Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky
To Lean More:
Polish Ex-Official Charged With Aiding C.I.A. (by Joanna Berendt and Nicholas Kulish, New York Times)
Ten Years Of Torture: On Anniversary Of Abu Zubaydah’s Capture, Poland Charges Former Spy Chief Over “Black Site” (by Andy Worthington)
‘President Didn’t Know about CIA Prison in Poland’ (TheNews.pl)
Obama Justice Dept. Refuses to Help Polish Torture Probe (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)
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Let the record show that Obama, Eric Holder, CIA, Nato/U.S. OFFICIALS ARE FASCISTS AND CRIMINALS.
Western Fascism has corrupted, co opted, blackmailed every class institution to protect War criminals, Fascists thugs.
The U.N. Security Council, even the ICC international courts have been unable, UNWILLING, to enforce UNIVERSAL JUSTICE, where even
the FASCIST INJUSTICE DEPT. under Eric Holder and Obama, protect these NAZI, FASCIST CIA CRIMINALS, including Bush
Fascist thugs, War criminals, Israeli War criminals.
Such WHOLESALE CORRUPTION by so called LAW institutions, shows that JUDICIAL NAZIS, have corrupted the RULE OF LAWS
FOR FASCISM. Western Fascism rots out every social force,through blackmail, coercion, EVEN THREATS BY A SITTING PRESIDENT,
LIKE OBAMA, who defends FASCISM, FASCIST ZIONISM, WAR CRIMES, WAR CRIMINALS and pretends democracy , social values.
It is time to prosecute NOT ONLY THE FASCIST POLICE HIERARCHIES that are linked to all Western class hierachies, but to prosecute
its WAR CRIMINALS, BUSH, OBAMA, ISRAELI THUGS.
TAKE DOWN THESE NAZIS, FASCISTS, who corrupt the rule of laws for A GLOBAL FASCIST MATRIX.
The European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations’ Convention Against Torture WERE CO OPTED,
PREVENTED FROM TAKING DOWN THESE CRIMINALS, allowing DUPLICITOUS, TOTLITARIAN , EMPIRE AND CLASS POLICIES
TO DEGENERATE INTO A GLOBAL FASCISM. European officials should now prosecute BUSH officials, and Obama officials as
well and the U.N. CHARTER should be enforced, NOT THE FASCIST NATO NATIONS, who have corrupted the U.N. into a GLOBAL
FASCIST MATRIX.
Hey kidz!!! Finally an Israeli spy put in jail . . . that's one down, and a few thousand
more to go . ..
. . .after all, doesn't the 5th Column Lobby AIPAC alone boast a membership of 100,000? . . . :-)
(clipped headline and article from Anti-War dot com)
"Spying on the Spies
Outsourcing intelligence-gathering to the Israelis imperils national security
Secret documents reveal government spy-and-smear campaign
Taking off his turban, they said, is this man a Jew?
’Cos he's working for the clampdown
They put up a poster saying we earn more than you!
When we're working for the clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal
So you got someone to boss around
It makes you feel big now
You drift until you brutalize
You made your first kill now
In these days of evil presidentes
Working for the clampdown
But lately one or two has fully paid their due
For working for the clampdown
Ha! Gitalong! Gitalong!"
Western class power is linked to the inverted totalitarian, Orwellian institutions of class hierarchies, deforming the middle layers,
professional classes into fascist mercenaries, and fascist middle, class politicians. They need scapgoats, divide and conquer
inverted totalitarian principles, based on EXCLUSION, to justify support for Fascist Parasites, that is mislabeled a democracy.
Racism, POLICE FASCISM are inter linked to each other to prop up all totalitarian class systems, since Patriarchy and class history
ENSLAVED Humanity.
Obama's enabling of POLICE FASCISM, whether the Fascist CIA, Fascist Empire, Fascist military, ONLY PROMOTES RACISM.
He may claim to oppose both Despotism and Racism, BUT HE IS DUPLICITOUS, CORRUPT AND HYPOCRITICAL. Obama
has not said anything about HIS POLICE THUGS who have attacked all social movements, including the OCCUPY MOVEMENT.
That in turn allows the FASCIST POLICE, to justify their totalitarianism using RACISM, SEXISM, FASCISM, to achieve their ends.
Obama enables Fascism, which in turn enables RACISM , even against BLACK POLICE OFFICERS, by fascist , racist
PROSECUTORS,THE FASCIST, CLASS SYSTEM HE SERVES:
Black Cop Shot 28 Times by White Cops Charged With Attempted Murder. Really
http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/04/04-1
excerpt:
"An incredible - and grossly under-reported - story out of Chicago, where Howard Morgan, a black 60-year-old former police officer working railroad security, was stopped for an alleged traffic violation, shot 28 times (21 in the back) by four white former colleagues, and inexplicably survived, only to be charged - and tried twice by a prosecutor who argued, "Every bullet he got, he earned" - with trying to kill them. His sentencing is Thursday; he faces up to 80 years in prison. Occupy Chicago is involved. And there's a Change.org petition....
CHICAGO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF BOTH POLICE FASCISM AND RACISM.....NOW ALSO SERVING A FASCIST MAYOR, RHAM
EMANUEL, who served as the FASCIST ZIONIST, for the fascist Obama.