NYT: America [and UK and Australia] needs a special prosecutor to investigate what appears increasingly to be “a vast criminal conspiracy, under color of law, to commit torture and other serious crimes.”....we now know the distance officials in the executive branch went to rationalize, and conceal, the crimes they wanted to commit. --------------------------------------------------- Australia complicit in torture....Australian officials at risk of trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC): Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib won a confidential settlement with the Australian government after presenting credible evidence of ASIO complicity in his torture. ASIO oversight ineffective - Australias captive regulators described as paper tigers: The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS). Now is the time to contest the rightful bounds of authority and punish those responsible for egregious violations of our laws. Ensure the mechanisms of separating and sharing power are not pulped into meaninglessness: It is time for a federal ICAC and standing royal commission into ASIO/Australian intelligence community that looks at the role of all our agencies and IGIS in these abuses. Ian Barker, QC a prominent Australian lawyer proclaimed his frustration with the abuses of ASIO, and by corollary, the lack of credible oversight, commented: “Any defence lawyer having anything to do with a case involving ASIO will know that its agents habitually act outside their powers and routinely abuse them, always in secret. It is rare indeed for their conduct to be exposed.”
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:18:38 +0000
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