Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Rumsfeld Off the Hook (12:23 pm)

Matt Apuzzo for AP reports:

Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as “lamentable.”

U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan threw out a lawsuit brought on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said Rumsfeld cannot be held personally responsible for actions taken in connection with his government job.

The lawsuit contends the prisoners were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.

posted by Brian Zick

Reader Comments

Mullah Cimoc say ameriki republican party now waking and the fog remove off him brain.

Him war destroy usa too much. destroy mental and emotional of amriki people.

but usa media so control (google: mighty wurltizer +cia) never to asking how bush becoming president.

this called the media coverup. bush family long time so corruption with intel community. am him bush jr. real republican? who these eviling people making him the president?

This make the cure for republican freedom people making majority. love the god, and love the family and working so hard every day.

but controlling hims of republican not this kind good person. him the wicked and loving the power and the torturing people, children of god, this too wicked. hims also loving the LBT (low back tattoo) and the killing the baby of abortion and ameriki woman becoming the slut for taking all the man.

posted by Mullah Cimoc on 3-27-07 at 2:21 PM

Not quite the same thinking that ruled the day at Nuremberg.

P.S.  I note the new contribution by the Mullah here, Brian.  I Googled him and I believe this particular epistle is identical to another posted elsewhere.  Oh well, I sort of say the same thing over and over again myself.
Quite the reading audience at ITT. Makes one wonder who the shy ones are.

posted by Sheila Condit on 3-27-07 at 11:57 PM

Good ruling!

One does wonder how much of the abuse was real and how much was made up, however. If there was real abuse, they should handle it as they did Abu Ghraib, punishing those actually responsible, rather than merely a hated political figure.

posted by bobby on 3-28-07 at 5:40 AM

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