Thursday, December 2, 2010
SSRN-Cooperative Federalism and Police Reform: Using Congressional Spending Power to Promote Police Accountability by Kami Simmons
SSRN-Cooperative Federalism and Police Reform: Using Congressional Spending Power to Promote Police Accountability by Kami Simmons: "Simmons, Kami Chavis, Cooperative Federalism and Police Reform: Using Congressional Spending Power to Promote Police Accountability (March 22, 2010). Wake Forest Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 1576688. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1576688"
Who Needs Enemies When You Have Political Friends Like These?
Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton and the Administration are revealed in a new Mother Jones published print account as having high level contacts, diplomatic and state department communiques with the Spanish govt
to protect six former Cheney Administrative contacts and DOJ lawyer John Yoo who created the "torture memo" along with Alberto Gonzales...
from a high profile, announced Spanish high commission on human and international rights judiciary inquiry into the human rights criminal investigation of these Six republican legal and administrative and DOJ officials...
at stake was America' image of a "human rights advocate worldwide"
pressure was clearly brought to bear upon high ranking Spanish authorities to NOT proceed with any such inquiry and investigation into Bush/Cheney's horrible human rights violations and critical memos which basically broke every international and some domestic legal treaty obligations pertaining to war time torture activities...
...the suprising thing about this revelation, is they weren't protected by right wing nutjobs, or partisan wingnuts
but top present day Obama administration liberals and their agencies and even our State Department communiques along with a good dose of Republican Latin state department officials...
...with the top Spanish AG and other judiciary officials
...what exactly was communicated to end this prosecution of these six culpable americans from an international inquiry into their torture policies, is yet to be fully revealed'
and quite possibly, will never be fully revealed nor the subject of any congressional oversight committee anytime soon
[you can just imagine this congress taking up such a hearing...on what was stated to the Spanish authorities to stop this open and publically disclosed, formal, extremely routine, professional official human rights Court inquiry ...
its just another example however how real politics gets the job done...
at the expense of our national purpose and express highest principles and many many individuals who were directly impacted and subjected to significant human rights violations and deprivations directly resulting from these "legal memos"...
the question that this leaves with the watching world and for all american citizens; are we trying now, to protect America's image? or her principles abroad?
when these do not square with real politics we see which of the two wins...[hint: its not exactly our Constitutional democratic idealogy... ]
one has to wonder...
to protect six former Cheney Administrative contacts and DOJ lawyer John Yoo who created the "torture memo" along with Alberto Gonzales...
from a high profile, announced Spanish high commission on human and international rights judiciary inquiry into the human rights criminal investigation of these Six republican legal and administrative and DOJ officials...
at stake was America' image of a "human rights advocate worldwide"
pressure was clearly brought to bear upon high ranking Spanish authorities to NOT proceed with any such inquiry and investigation into Bush/Cheney's horrible human rights violations and critical memos which basically broke every international and some domestic legal treaty obligations pertaining to war time torture activities...
...the suprising thing about this revelation, is they weren't protected by right wing nutjobs, or partisan wingnuts
but top present day Obama administration liberals and their agencies and even our State Department communiques along with a good dose of Republican Latin state department officials...
...with the top Spanish AG and other judiciary officials
...what exactly was communicated to end this prosecution of these six culpable americans from an international inquiry into their torture policies, is yet to be fully revealed'
and quite possibly, will never be fully revealed nor the subject of any congressional oversight committee anytime soon
[you can just imagine this congress taking up such a hearing...on what was stated to the Spanish authorities to stop this open and publically disclosed, formal, extremely routine, professional official human rights Court inquiry ...
its just another example however how real politics gets the job done...
at the expense of our national purpose and express highest principles and many many individuals who were directly impacted and subjected to significant human rights violations and deprivations directly resulting from these "legal memos"...
the question that this leaves with the watching world and for all american citizens; are we trying now, to protect America's image? or her principles abroad?
when these do not square with real politics we see which of the two wins...[hint: its not exactly our Constitutional democratic idealogy... ]
one has to wonder...
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