THE ACCUSED:
- Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney
- Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
- Former CIA Director George Tenet
- Former Sen. Pat "The Senator Winced" Roberts -
- Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Dr. Stephen Cambone
- Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez
- Major General Walter Wojdakowski
- Major General Geoffrey Miller
- Colonel Thomas Pappas
- Major General Barbara Fast
- Colonel Marc Warren
- Former Chief White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales
- Former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee
- Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo
- Former Deputy Assistant AG Jennifer Koester
- General Counsel of the Department of Defense William James Haynes, II
- Vice President Chief Counsel David S. Addington
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"Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren…. Provide everything necessary for them on the road."
Gen. George Washington
“There is no longer any doubt as to whether the current [Bush] administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba
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Welcome to CheneyWatch
On September 14, 1775, General George Washington sent the following declaration:
“Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner]. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.”
Gen. George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
Despite the spineless oversight over the Executive Powers of the United States of America from Truman to Obama by the Congress of the United States, the facts are clear that Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney should be tried for both domestic and international crimes. Despite occasional comprehensive coverage in various news outlets, including FoxNews, of the officials who signed off on invasion, extraordinary rendition, torture, domestic wire tapping, politicizing the justice department, tharting the lame attempts by Congress to engage in its impotent oversight, do not have the facts on their side. It is likely your own representative to Congress is not going to act until you engage them, hold them accountable for failing to hold these people accountable. Learn more |
Nuremberg Principles state:
Principle I
Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment. |
Principle II
The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law. |
Principle III
The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law. |
Principle IV
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him. |
Principle V
Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law |
Principle VI
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
(a) Crimes against peace:
| (i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances; |
| (ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i). |
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(b) War crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labour or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity. |
(c) Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connexion with any crime against peace or any war crime. |
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Principle VII
Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principle VI is a crime under international law. |
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