Unintended Consequences
Laura Rozen points to The Green Light, an article by Phillippe Sands in the May issue of Vanity Fair that beings up some interesting possibilities. By granting people immunity from prosecution for violation of US laws in the Military Commissions Act, the way is open for the rest of the world to prosecute them.
A stumbling block in war crime prosecutions by outside countries is that they have to wait and establish that the individuals can not or will not be prosecuted for their crimes in their own countries. The immunity granted by the Military Commissions Act clears that obstacle to foreign prosecution.
People involved with this administration may as well forget about foreign travel, or there could be a side-trip to the Hague arranged for them.
2 comments
…oh, Lord, the money that I would gladly lay on the table to get a video of Big Dick Cheney being pulled out the the first class section at Heathrow and marched in manacles down an airstair and across the tarmac to a waiting Netherlands-bound charter flight…
How about Junior getting picked up in Mexico? That would be a major hoot.
After I read this I remember that a rendition case in Germany was stymied by this issue: that the US would do something. It’s tough to prove someone won’t do something, but easy to show they can’t, when there’s a law on the books.