Justice Department Asks Spain Not to Prosecute U.S. Torturers http://warisacrime.org/content/justice-department-asks-spain-not-prosecute-us-torturers

 Spain is pursuing a case against former top U.S. officials who authorized the use of torture, including David Addington, Jay Bybee, Douglas Feith, William Haynes, John Yoo, and Alberto Gonzales. U.S. activist groups have been encouraging Spain in this endeavor. The U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of International Affairs, has sent a 7-page letter to the Spanish court (PDF) in response to Judge Eloy Velasco Nunez's request for information. The letter does not provide any information but asks the Spanish court to submit all of its information to the United States "for further review and investigation, as appropriate."

Remember, we are talking about the possible prosecution of people who openly confess to having written and signed documents that in many cases are now public, documents that clearly authorized torture (not to mention [and nobody is mentioning] aggressive war, lawless imprisonment, warrantless spying, etc), torture that is well documented as having occurred. This is not a case requiring any investigation, but rather simply a reversal in the DOJ's position on what is appropriate -- or in the White House's position, since the DOJ openly takes all its orders from the President....