MA Prosecutor Lets Rumsfeld Walk, Charges Protester Instead

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http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14987-ma-prosecutor-lets-rumsfeld-walk-charges-protester-instead

MA Prosecutor Lets Rumsfeld Walk, Charges Protester Instead
Thursday, 07 March 2013 10:25 By Ralph Lopez, War Is a Crime | Op-Ed

A little over a year ago former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came to Boston for a speech and was greeted by crowds demanding his arrest. In these pages and others I reported:

"Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been stripped of legal immunity for acts of torture against US citizens authorized while he was in office. The 7th Circuit made the ruling in the case of two American contractors who were tortured by the US military in Iraq after uncovering a smuggling ring within an Iraqi security company. .. The ruling comes as Rumsfeld begins his book tour with a visit to Boston on Monday, September 26, and as new, uncensored photos of Abu Ghraib spark fresh outrage across Internet."

It turns out that Rumsfeld not only knew about the worst of the worst abuses of the Bush Torture Era, including what was happening at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, and at Abu Ghraib. He perhaps even ordered it. Memos with comments in Rumsfeld's own handwriting in the margins said things like "I stand for 8--10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours?"

This was in response to individual torture reports detailing prisoners made to stand for long periods of time. Since the human body fails after standing for extended periods, and crumples to the floor involuntarily, other measures might have been necessary to make them stand. Like chaining them to the ceiling.




unhappycamper comment: I have doubts Rummy will ever do the perp walk. To support Shaun Joseph please call:

Suffolk County District Attorney's Office

DA Daniel F. Conley

Phone [phone]