Slobodan Cheney

Scott Horton points to this paragraph by Patricia Wald, a former federal appellate judge who served as a war crimes tribunal judge for Yugoslavia. Scott:

There should be no confusion about what is being said here. One of America’s most prominent judges–and one of our few judicial experts on war crimes–is saying that the factual basis exists to charge officials of the Bush Administration. The test is fairly simple: is the United States now prepared to apply to itself the same legal standards that the United States applied to political leaders in the former Yugoslavia? It is in the end a simple question of justice. And a question of whether the United States is prepared itself to live by the standards it imposes on others.