[Peace-discuss] Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times

Wed Jan 4 15:23:24 UTC 2017

Since the Association of American Law Schools invited Killer Koh to give their Keynote Address before their Annual Convention, that shows how rotten,  corrupt, despicable and unprincipled the American Legal "Academy" really is. I suspect the German Association of Law Schools and Law Professors invited Von Ribbentrop's Lawyer to give their Keynote Address before their Annual Convention too--before they were convicted at Nuremberg. The Nazis had their Law Schools and Law Professors too. Ditto and a fortiori for this Illinois Nazis Law School. 
Fab
Ed Norton Professor of Law
Carl Schmitt Law School:
"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

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Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times

I have not had a look at the list of law professors. But those mentioned fully supported Killers Obama and Clinton. Fab.
From: Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups [mailto:AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:13 PM
To: AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU
Subject: BOYCOTT HAROLD KOH'S Keynote Address at AALS Convention

In 1983 Harold Koh went to work for the Reagan administration, Department of “Justice” Office of Legal Counsel, and justified every hideous atrocity that Reagan inflicted on international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution until he left in 1985. Reagan to Obama. Koh is just an opportunist and a careerist and  a War Criminal. Fab.
From: Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups [mailto:AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2012 7:34 AM
To: AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU
Subject: Re: BOYCOTT HAROLD KOH'S TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PROBLEMS, 4th Ed. Foundation Press

When at the AALS Convention in January  the War Criminal Harold Koh says he is an exemplar of the Transnational Legal Studies Movement, don’t anyone believe him! Its Founder Henry Steiner never taught any of us students  to murder people and commit war crimes. Henry always taught his course and his students with the highest degree of ethical integrity. Ditto for Louis Sohn, Dick Baxter, Abe Chayes, Roger Fisher, and Clyde Ferguson. RIP. Koh is an utter and absolute disgrace to all of them. Fab.

Hey! Hey!
Harold, say!
How many kids!
Did you kill today!

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

From: Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups [mailto:AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:02 AM
To: AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU
Subject: BOYCOTT HAROLD KOH'S TRANSNATIONAL LEGAL PROBLEMS, 4th Ed. Foundation Press

And I hereby call upon all law professors of good faith and good will to boycott Harold Koh’s Transnational Legal Problems, Fourth Edition, Foundation Press. Fab.

Hey! Hey!
Harold, say!
How many kids!
Did you kill today!

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

From: Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups [mailto:AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:57 AM
To: AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU
Subject: President Lincoln v. Droner Harold Koh & Nazi Crown Jurist Carl Schmitt at AALS Convention & Yale Law School

In  General Orders, No. 100 of April 24, 1863, “Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field, ”  President Lincoln ordered:
SECTION IX 
Assassination
Art. 148.
The law of war does not allow proclaiming either an individual belonging to the hostile army, or a citizen, or a subject of the hostile government, an outlaw, who may be slain without trial by any captor, any more than the modern law of peace allows such intentional outlawry; on the contrary, it abhors such outrage. The sternest retaliation should follow the murder committed in consequence of such proclamation, made by whatever authority. Civilized nations look with horror upon offers of rewards for the assassination of enemies as relapses into barbarism.

Lincoln’s prohibition has been continuously in effect since then up through and including Department of the Army Field Manual 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare (1956), which is still valid and binding, and was written for  the Pentagon by my Teacher, Mentor and Friend the late, great Richard R. Baxter, later Judge of the International Court of Justice. RIP. Notice Lincoln determined such conduct to be pure “murder”:

“Boyle accuses the Obama administration of continuing to conduct a “bogus” war on “international terrorism” including the ever escalating campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Yemen and other jurisdictions. He termed the president’s program of “targeted killings,” in which President Obama himself draws up the “kill list,” to be simply a case of “pure murder” under both traditional British common law and international law, and says these attacks constitute a “Crime against Humanity under Article 7(1)(a) of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court.””
Hey! Hey!
Harold, say!
How many kids!
Did you kill today!
Luca Brozzi: Don Vito, I hear Obama’s War Consiglieri Harold Koh is returning to Yale Law School to teach courses on Human Rights and International Law.

Vito Corleone: Joke of the day, Luca! Yale Law created a special chair just for him named after a previous Yale Law Dean War Criminal. Obama’s War Consiglieri will now become the Dean  Gene Rostow Professor of Law.

Luca Brozzi: You mean of the Rostow Brothers who ran the Vietnam War for LBJ?

Don Vito: Right Luca:
Hey! Hey!
LBJ!
How many kids!
Did you kill today!

Luca Brozzi: So now at Yale Law School it will be:
Hey! Hey!
Harold, say!
How many kids!
Did you kill today!

Don Vito: Right Luca. For the past generation Yale Law has specialized in churning out war criminals, war mongerers and torturers and torture lawyers  such as Goldsmith now at Harvard Law School, Yoo at Berkeley Law, and Wedgie now at Johns Hopkins, etc. Obama’s War Consiglieri Koh will be a worthy successor to Johnson’s War Consiglieri Rostow at Yale Law School. Why they might even give him another term as YLS Dean just in honor of all the atrocities he justified for Obama.

Luca Brazzi: Right Don Vito. I notice that former YLS Dean Guido Calabresi has just sung Koh’s praises and  can’t wait for his return to YLS.

Don Vito: No surprise there Luca! Calabresi  and Rostow were Goodfella’s together at Yale Law School. Two peas in a pod.

Luca Brazzi: Say, Don Vito, do you think Obama will return to teach “Constitutional Law” at the University of Chicago Law School?

Don Vito: Of course Luca. Our Boy Tony Reczko bought Obama his nice mansion in Hyde Park so I am sure Obama will want to return home.

Luca Brazzi: Gosh, Don Vito, that was sure smart of us getting Tony in there  on the ground floor of  Obama.

Don Vito: Right Luca. The  Chicago Machine has always been in the Pocket of the Chicago Mob going back to Al Capone, Frank Nitti and our other Goodfella’s  in Chicago.

Luca Brazzi: Is there a book I can read on that?  

Don Vito: Sure, Ovid DeMaris, The Naked City, would be a good start.

Luca Brazzi: I’ll go out and get a copy Don Vito. It sure is nice to know that Yale Law, Harvard Law, Chicago Law, Berkeley Law, Columbia Law, Northwestern Law etc., will  all teach their  future lawyers how to make people  Sleeps With The Fishes.

Don Vito: Yeah, Tom Horgan is about to “retire”. So the Outfit needs some new Consiglieri to take his place.

Luca Brazzi: You mean you want me to whack Tom?

Don Vito: Merry Christmas Luca!

Luca Brazzi: Happy New Year Godfather!

Don Vito: Then  see you at the AALS Convention in New Orleans!

Luca Brazzi: Yeah, I sure want to hear Obama’s War Consiglieri Harold Koh give all the American Law Professors their Keynote Address on how to “engage” the Arab and Muslim Worlds at the Aim-point of a Drone. Teach those diaper-heads a thing or too!

Don Vito: Right Luca. We are just Small Time  Killers  compared to Koh and Obama.

Luca Brazzi: Why I could use one of dem drones to take out the entire Barzini Family all  at once.

Don Vito: Sorry Luca. We don’t kill women and children. We are Men of Honor. I would not sanction such a hit.

Luca Brazzi: But Obama does every Tuesday morning!

Don Vito: Right Luca. Obama and Koh are not Men of Honor.

Luca Brazzi: Right Godfather. It  sure is nice to live by a Code of Honor.

Fab

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

From: Association of American Law Schools Section on Minority Groups [mailto:AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis A
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 10:28 AM
To: AALSMIN-L at LISTSERV.UBALT.EDU
Subject: Harold Koh & Nazi Crown Jurist Carl Schmitt at AALS Convention

I hope everyone has a great time at the AALS Convention listening to Obama’s  racist droner War Criminal Harold Koh giving their Keynote Address in the name of you all   about how to “ engage”  the Arab and Muslim  worlds  at the aim-point of a drone. American law professors for unconstitutional wars!  American law professors for torture!    American law professors for the Gitmo kangaroo courts!  American law professors for indefinite detention!  American law professors for drone strikes!  American law professors for assassinations!  American law professors for war crimes!  American law professors for murdering United States citizens!  How much lower can American law professors descend into the criminal muck of Neo-Nazi legal nihilism?  Since 9/11/2001, the shades of Nazi “crown jurist” law professor Carl Schmitt have been running amok in the hallways, classrooms, faculty offices, conferences, and publications of the American legal academy and among their now practicing lawyer former students. Arabs and Muslims have become their new Jews.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

-----Original Message-----
From: Boyle, Francis A 
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 8:47 AM
To: 'Jay' <futureup2us at gmail.com>
Cc: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times

Thanks  Jay. Just remember that the Association of American Law Schools--that represents all accredited law schools in the country--invited Clinton's Killer Koh to give their Keynote Address before their Annual Convention. Fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay [mailto:futureup2us at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 8:34 AM
To: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>
Cc: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
Subject: Re: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times

This from the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-jeff-sessions-attorney-general-law-professors-20170103-story.html

Jay

> On Jan 4, 2017, at 08:29, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
> 
> So notice: This Nazi Law School has had Four Deans in a Row who have maliciously  negated and neutered Human Rights and Our Common Humanity. Fab.
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:20 PM
> To: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> And before these 3 Illinois  Nazi Law  Deans their predecessor, Dean Tommy Boy Mengele--fired by the Provost-- was a big, open, notorious and unabashed supporter of Chief Illiniwak. Illini Nazis Law Dean Mengele  deliberately tormented our  one American Indian Law Student. We have none today. Indian Lives Never Mattered  at the Illinois Nazis Law School. Ditto for the University of Illiniwaks at Urbana-Champaign. 
> Fab
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:05 PM
> To: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> In other words, we have now had THREE DEANS IN A ROW supporting US  war crimes against Muslims/Arabs/Asians of Color--the Untermensch of the Illinois Nazis Law Faculty, where Black Lives do not matter either.
> Fab	
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt Law School:
> "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 3:05 PM
> To: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> While  Fired and Disgraced  Hurricane  Heidi Hurd was Dean of this Nazi Law Faculty, Her  Chair of the Appointments Committee, Uncle Brucie Smith, tried to hire a  Bush Jr Torture Lawyer War Criminal. Of course I went ballistic with the Faculty. Not surprisingly, Uncle Brucie Smith succeeded Fired and Disgraced Dean Hurricane  Heidi Hurd as Dean of this Nazi Law Faculty--to be Fired and Disgraced himself. And then the Successor to Fired and Disgraced and ABA-Sanctioned  Deans Uncle Brucie Smith and Hurricane Heidi Hurd, Vic Amar invites Obama/Clinton's Killer Koh to give an endowed lecture on being a Role Model for Lawyers in Government Service while campaigning to get his Client Killer Clinton elected President ten days later.. Truly Orwellian! But so it goes at the Illinois Nazis Law School Where:
> 
> WAR IS PEACE
> FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
> IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
> WE ALL LOVE BIG BROTHER
> REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT IN 1984
> KILLER KOH WORKED FOR REAGAN IN 1984
> THE ILLINOIS NAZI LAW FACULTY KNEW IT IN 2015 BECAUSE I TOLD THEM SO
> 
> 
> Fab
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 1:18 PM
> To: David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; C. G. Estabrook <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net; Mildred O'brien <moboct1 at aim.com>; David Johnson <davidjohnson1451 at comcast.net>; Jay <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: FW: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> The Disgraced and Fired Dean Hurricane Heidi Hurd  and her Consort Michael CIA/Mossad Moore of this Nazi Law Faculty  have been stinking up this Campus and our Community since their arrival here  by advocating torture.
> Fab
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 1:13 PM
> To: Action Greens <actiongreens at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: FW: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> 
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 1:04 PM
> Subject: RE: Inside Trump Defense Secretary Pick’s Efforts to Halt Torture - The New York Times
> 
> Thanks to Staff Sergeant Mejia--the first GI Resister to Bush Jr.'s War of Aggression against Iraq, we knew all about the Bush Jr Torture Scandal in Iraq well before it hit the headlines. After a Kangaroo Court Martial Proceeding at Fort Stewart Georgia, instead of 2 years we got Mejia 8 months and adopted a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. How we did it is explained in my book Protesting Power: War,Resistance and Law (Rowman and Littlefield Inc. 2008). For his act of courage, integrity and principle, Mejia got more time than most of the torturers. Fab.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> LeVine: In my own research on war crimes committed by US forces in Iraq. I counted at least two-dozen classes of offenses systematically committed by the Occupation administration and US or US-allied military forces in the invasion and subsequent period of CPA (Coalition Provisional Authority) rule. This includes violations of articles and 17, 18, 33, and 147 of the Geneva Convention covering the killing, hostage-taking and torturing of civilians 
> Boyle: As I just argued at Fort Stewart Georgia in the court martial proceedings for Sgt. Camilo Mejia for desertion, the accountability here goes directly up the chain of command under the terms of the US Army Field Manual 27-10. Specifically, paragraph 501 makes clear that commanders who have ordered or knew or should have known about war crimes and failed to stop it are themselves guilty of war crimes. If you look then at the public record, it is clear that Gens. Sanchez and Miller ordered war crimes and both should be relieved of command immediately: abuse of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Conventions. As for General Abizaid, the overall commander of US forces in Southwest Asia, he admitted in his Senate hearings that he should have known about the war crimes at Abu Ghraib, so basically he's already incriminated himself under the rules of the US Army Field Manual 27-10 In addition, above Abizaid you have Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Again my reading of the public record including the Taguba and Red Cross reports is that they either knew or should have known about all these war crimes. Indeed, if you read the ICRC report, - and as I testified under oath and under cross-examination (and was not contradicted) at the Mejia court-martial proceedings, - the widespread and systematic nature of these abuses rise to the level of crimes against humanity, going all the way up through the chain of command. Culpability also extends to Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence General William G. Boykin and Defense Undersecretary Stephen Cambone, who reports directly to Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith. And through this line it appears to me that Rumsfeld is culpable, because he was at Abu Ghraib last fall. Indeed, Sy Hersch's New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib claims with good substantiation that he was totally aware and even signed off on the use of techniques which are clearly torture. Rumsfeld was given a tour by Brig. General Janet Karpinski, who was supposed to be in charge of the prison-although she said nothing when she was prohibited from accessing certain areas of it-and so she's also accountable. It's important to understand that the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Regulations of 1907, the U.S. Army Field Manual, all mandate that a criminal investigation be opened. And how President Bush, as Commander in Chief would be accountable under Field Manual 27-10 precisely because he is Commander in Chief of the US armed forces under the US Constitution. We know the White House knows this because if you read White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales's memo, he specifically tries to exempt the US from the Geneva Conventions for Guantanamo and Afghanistan. You can see that Gonzalez was afraid of Bush and others being held directly accountable. Moreover, because Powell dissented, we know there was a debate about this, so Bush had to have been aware of the implications of what was being done, which is also backed up by the memos from Ashcroft. These memos have been unearthed by Newsweek. So ultimately what we have here are people at the highest levels of the chain of command guilty of ordering or not preventing torture, which is both an international crime against the Geneva Conventions and the Torture Convention and a domestic crime as well. What we have then is a conspiracy among the aforementioned individuals to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. Let me add one more thing that's very important to remember: The principles set forth in 27-10 of personal criminal accountability for war crimes goes back to the Nuremburg Charter, Judgments and Principles derived from the post-World War II trials of Nazi war criminals. Similar principles of criminal accountability were applied by the United States to the Japanese Imperial War criminals. 
> LeVine: In fact, President Bush has compared the war on terror to the war against the Nazis. 
> Boyle: Then we have even more reason to bring this to people's attention: The Nuremburg Principles were in fact originally the idea of the US Government which then orchestrated the prosecutions in Nuremburg. People need to understand the pedigree and heritage here. These are very grave offenses which the US government a generation ago prosecuted and executed Nazis for committing. And Japanese war criminals too. 
> LeVine: How can any of the people you mentioned be prosecuted? 
> Boyle: The military could do it, or the Dept. of Justice, which would have default power to do so if the military didn't. But for this of course we'd need a special prosecutor and that law has been allowed to lapse. Attorney General Ashcroft, who is clearly part of the criminal conspiracy, would never push a war crimes investigations against his colleagues or President Bush.
> 
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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