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Ginsburg: War Crimes Charges Against Bush Officials Unlikely
Prosecutions of Bush administration officials for their conduct of the fight against terrorism are unlikely, said speakers at a panel held today during the World Justice Forum in Vienna.
As George W. Bush's time as U.S. president nears its end and in the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings rejecting the administration's treatment of suspected terrorists in the years following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a number of commentators and legal experts have suggested that some of those policies violated international conventions prohibiting indefinite detentions and inhumane treatment of detainees.
The issue was raised by an audience member near the end of a program moderated by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But Ginsburg and Michael Posner, president of Human… Continue reading...
