‘Citizen’ Rumsfeld barely escaped the clutches of the law after four human rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the former U.S. secretary of defense for “ordering and authorizing torture” of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
Rumsfeld was whisked away from the U.S. Embassy in Paris following a meeting sponsored by Foreign Policy magazine. Since Rumsfeld resigned, the veil of immunity has been lifted which exposes him to war crimes. This should send a strong message to the other Bush administration officials who may face similar war crimes if they ever trespass outside the protection of the U.S, once they leave office.
The criminal complaint filed before the Paris prosecutor was brought under the 1984 Convention Against Torture ratified by the U.S, and France. Document paper trails and government memos recently published in the New York Times directly implicates Rumsfeld and other White House and Pentagon officials. Included in the written testimony is the damning testimony of Janis Karpinski, a former high-ranking U.S. army officer at the U.S. run U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Major General Miller, was Rumsfeld’s point man who crafted the grotesque interrogation methods which have brought such shame and dishonor to our nation. Unless we raise our collective voices to a deafening roar, ‘King George’ will continue to ignore Congress and the will of the people.
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