In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.
"creating a legal framework that allegedly permitted torture." The six were former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; David Addington, former chief of staff and legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney; William Haynes, the Pentagon's former general counsel; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy; Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and John Yoo, a former official in the Office of Legal Counsel.
Spin that.
Update: Please forgive me. I posted information that was a few years old, however it is beyond a doubt relevant to current affairs. If you're looking for breaking news... it is thataway.
A second update.
I'm reading in the comments that some people have issues with this diary that it doesn't include Breaking News.
So here, maybe this will explain it.
Third update:
Excellent diary:
(UPDATED) We should be outraged: the immunity arguments are fallacious.