It looks like Europeans are serious about trying members of the Bush administration for war crimes.
It has already been reported that both former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former VP Dick Cheney have changed European travel plans at least once after being warned by legal aides there was a chance they’d be arrested if they set foot on European soil.
Now, it’s Douglas Feith’s turn.
The former undersecretary of defense under Bush “directed” U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq, which wound up wasting, and even outright losing, billions of dollars; and, earlier, was a key player in providing legal cover to Bush policies under which prisoners were tortured.
It’s the latter charge that Spanish human rights lawyers are pursuing; their case has been sent to prosecutors for review by Judge Baltasar Garzon, the guy who ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in the late 1990s.
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