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07-09-2008, 05:43 PM
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The US vice presidential candidate, Joseph Biden, has suggested Bush administration should be tried over Guantanamo if Senator Obama wins.
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president - no one is above the law,” Biden told a crowd in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Obama himself expressed interest in such a move last April while addressing voters he said that he would have his attorney general go over decisions made by the Bush Administration to determine which ones were “genuine crimes” and which were “really bad policies”, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph reported.
According to the daily, the remark is the strongest indication yet that an Obama administration might seek legal redress against President George W. Bush and could undermine Mr Obama's message of bipartisanship and moving beyond the battles over Iraq.
Nearly 255 prisoners from different nationalities suspected of terrorist activities are still in US custody in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The US media report on daily basis that the Guantanamo prisoners are mistreated by the American prison guards and interrogators.
The US vice presidential candidate, Joseph Biden, has suggested Bush administration should be tried over Guantanamo if Senator Obama wins.
“If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued, not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president - no one is above the law,” Biden told a crowd in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
Obama himself expressed interest in such a move last April while addressing voters he said that he would have his attorney general go over decisions made by the Bush Administration to determine which ones were “genuine crimes” and which were “really bad policies”, the British newspaper Daily Telegraph reported.
According to the daily, the remark is the strongest indication yet that an Obama administration might seek legal redress against President George W. Bush and could undermine Mr Obama's message of bipartisanship and moving beyond the battles over Iraq.
Nearly 255 prisoners from different nationalities suspected of terrorist activities are still in US custody in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
The US media report on daily basis that the Guantanamo prisoners are mistreated by the American prison guards and interrogators.