War crimes investigations begin at home – Mondoweiss

War crimes investigations begin at home – Mondoweiss “Our” war criminals are given full impunity, as I have personal knowledge of from Guantanamo and in joining an effort for compensation of a child prisoner once held there who had a full panoply of torture techniques used on him. Which, after a long list of tortures done by other CIA/military officers, concluded with those as precedent: “Dismissed, for acting within the scope of their employment.” They were only “following orders” in other words. (A provision which also protects “federal law enforcement” personnel, and of state/local LE personnel in general in most jurisdictions as well, though that is becoming less available, against the wishes of the vast majority of “conservatives.”