THE ISSUE: A UN envoy’s call to prosecute those responsible for ‘harsh’ post-9/11 interrogations.
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Reading Charles Hurt’s article (“Targeting ‘Torture’ Attorneys,” April 25), I felt a surge of rage against the United Nations and Manfred Nowak, who serves as a UN “special rapporteur” in Geneva.
How dare the United Nations criticize the United States for taking measures it deems necessary to protect itself against future terror attacks?
I have no doubt of the decency and morality of the United States.
America works under more scrutiny and transparency than Libya, Syria and Iran, which make up the UN Human Rights Council.
Yet Nowak has the audacity to call for the prosecution of Bush administration lawyers “who wrote policies permitting the use of harsh interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists.”
The United Nations is such a den of vipers that anything it advocates against the United States has to be discarded.
H. Freedman
Manhattan
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Do we need any more proof that the current administration is on the wrong path in its efforts to investigate and punish Bush administration lawyers who wrote policies on terrorist tactics?
The UN’s “top anti-terror envoy” said that the United States must prosecute the lawyers. As the saying goes, “Birds of a feather flock together.”
Ed Goodwin
Manhattan
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Where does Nowak get off telling us that we must prosecute “torture” attorneys? He is of the First Avenue monument to corruption, greed, inaction, ineffectiveness and scandal.
Would he rather have us use the same tactics as the terrorists? Nowak and his ilk should get out of here and go to one of the bastions of human rights they think so highly of.
Incidentally, the United States, alone and at its own expense, has provided more world aid than the United Nations.
We can make better use of our money than continually dumping it in the UN cesspool.
Edward Kelly
Massapequa