WASHINGTON (AP) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that would hold him personally responsible for allegations of torture in oversees military prisons.
The lawsuit, filed by two civil rights groups, describes the imprisonment of nine foreigners detained in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lawsuit contends the men were beaten, suspended upside down from the ceiling by chains, urinated on, shocked, sexually humiliated, burned, locked inside boxes and subjected to mock executions.
President Bush has called the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq the biggest mistake of the war. More on the story.
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I was listening on news radio today and it looks like it will be tossed, because he was an official, and acting as an official from orders of a higher up official, on behalf of the safety of this country. And to add, I am sure the higher up official will be able to come up with some reason why there was a credible security threat But of course this has been the most secretive administration yet. But this one looks like legally they can swirm out of it.
But, Rummy is not off the hook in the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay scandals.. He may get a temporary free pass off of this lawsuit.. But, he is a big heap in trouble...
Well, according to the news program I was listening to he can legally squirm out of this, using some legal loopholes.
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