President Obama's decision to spare CIA torturers from prosecution stands the Nuremberg principles on their head. "Good Germans" who were only following orders' are not exempt from the bar of justice. Individuals must be held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Justice Robert Jackson, Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, declared in his opening statement to the Tribunal that the men charged "represent sinister influence that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have...
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