ACLU sues Rumsfeld for torture practices

From the ACLU Press Release:

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Former Government and Military Officials Join Landmark Lawsuit

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody, the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First charged today in the first federal court lawsuit to name a top U.S. official in the ongoing torture scandal in Iraq and Afghanistan that has tarnished America's reputation.

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17584&c=206

Anybody want to start laying bets on the outcome of this one?

This one is going to be fun.

It's just a warm up for Gonzales I bet. They know he's going to hand them more material than they know what to with.

From here.

WASHINGTON - Children held by the U.S. Army at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript.

"He looked like he was eight years old. He told me he was almost 12," Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski told officials investigating prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. "He told me his brother was there with him, but he really wanted to see his mother, could he please call his mother. He was crying."

Karpinski's statement is among hundreds of pages of Army records about Abu Ghraib the American Civil Liberties Union released Thursday. The ACLU got the documents under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking records about abuse of detainees in Iraq.

The documents also include statements from six witnesses who said three interrogators and a civilian interpreter at Abu Ghraib got drunk one night and took a 17-year-old female prisoner from her cell. The four men forced the girl to expose her breasts and kissed her, the reports said. The witnesses — whose names were blacked out of the documents given to the ACLU — said those responsible were not punished.

Land of the free, home of the brave.

I think Mr. Rumsfield proves one can be intelligent without the :thumbsdn: capacity for common sense.......

Schrodinger's Cat wrote:

Anybody want to start laying bets on the outcome of this one?

Pardon me. :us:

Schrodinger's Cat wrote:

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Dismissed for lack of standing.

Schrodinger's Cat wrote:

Anybody want to start laying bets on the outcome of this one?

Medal of Freedom with thumbscrew clusters. :thumbsdn: :eek: