Spanish To Burn Alberto Gonzales At The Stake For War Crimes

The Spanish government has decided to continue a criminal investigation of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other high ranking U.S. officials who allegedly gave the greenlight to torture five Spanish prisoners at Guantanamo. Burn! What’s more, both countries are determined not to let this stand in the way of improved relations between them. Let’s see how long before someone calls the current administration unpatriotic.

The issue came up during a Spanish trial of the five Spaniards accused of terrorism. The judge in the case, Baltasar Garzón Real, referred it to Spanish prosecutors to decide whether to press forward. “The evidence provided was more than sufficient to justify a more comprehensive investigation,” said one of the lawyers associated with the prosecution. Judge Garzón, well known for presiding over the case of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, is being asked to hand the case over to Judge Ismail Moreno who is currently handling a CIA case of mistaken identity that kept a German grocer of Arab descent imprisoned for almost half a year. The request came because of the “awkward” nature of a judge handling both the alleged terrorists’ and their alleged torturers’ trials.  The five other suspects in the investigation are:

Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee

University of California law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo

Former Defense Department general counsel and current Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II

Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff David Addington

Former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith

 Sean Delonas is drawing up the Spanish Inquisition cartoon now.

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