Spanish judge who pursued international crimes is suspended from bench

The Spanish judge who indicted Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden and pursued charges against former Bush Administration officials for torture has been suspended from his post. The decision on Judge Baltazar Garzon came today after a judicial oversight board conducted an emergency meeting. If convicted, Garzon could be removed from the bench in Spain for 20 years.

To discuss the case, we're joined by Alejandra Vicente, she's an attorney with the Center for Justice and International Law, that's an organization with offices throughout the Americas that promotes human rights and litigates before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Vicente is from Spain and has been following the Garzon case. She joins us from Washington DC.