Human rights group calls for criminal investigations of Rumsfeld, Tenet

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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--prisonabuse-human0423apr23,0,7143593.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork


A human rights watchdog group has called for a criminal investigation of U.S. intelligence and military officials who it says condoned or ignored the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and other locations.

The report, to be released Sunday by the Human Rights Watch, takes no stance on the ultimate culpability of the officials, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA Director George Tenet, but says an investigation is warranted by growing evidence against them.

It criticizes Rumsfeld and Tenet for trying to pass blame for the abuse to military subordinates and individual soldiers.

"This pattern of abuse across several countries did not result from the acts of individual soldiers who broke the rules," Reed Brody, special counsel for the group, said in a statement. "It resulted from decisions made by senior U.S. officials to bend, ignore, or cast rules aside."
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is there a list somewhere of all the charges, investigations, etc. against the criminal bushgang? here and world wide?

it must be a long list.

power to the human right group.

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. Re routine CIA kidnappings and torture around the world - READ THIS

I've posted both at DU
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1740193

And on Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/23/1577/49097

It's on the latest article about this by the respectived British investigative journalist Stephen Grey, and it will shock you - not only by what it reports but also that we have not heard it from US journalists. He has had a BBC broadcast on this subject as well as many other articles in prominent venues. But silence here.

Chilling. Surely the anti-torture, human rights people knew about Grey's reports, they're too prominent in Europe to miss. Why haven't we heard anything?