Prosecutors will recommend that a Spanish court drop its investigation of six former Bush administration officials for alleged torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Spain’s attorney general said Thursday.
The claim against the former officials, presented by a human rights group and provisionally accepted last month at the court — pending an opinion from the prosecutors — is a fraudulent claim, said Attorney General Candido Conde-Pumpido, according to his press chief. If alleged torture at Guantanamo is going to be investigated at all, that should be done first in the United States, so that the former American officials would have a chance to defend themselves there, Conde-Pumpido added, according to his press chief, Fernando Noya. The prosecutors will inform the investigating judge, Baltasar Garzon, of their decision, and the judge would then have to decide whether to proceed or shelve the case, Noya said.
