Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee--David Swanson

[Demeter]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_051229_rumsfeld_admits_to__22.htm


"December 29, 2005

Rumsfeld Admits to "Ghosting" Detainee
by David Swanson


U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact....An account of what we know on this matter can be found on page 110 of a new report by Congressman John Conyers called "The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War."


Why do Nuremberg Principles III and IV both come to mind?

Principle III
The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.

Principle IV
The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him. "



http://www.davidswanson.org

DAVID SWANSON is a co-founder of After Downing Street, a writer and activist, and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. He is a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, and serves on the Executive Council of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson obtained a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia in 1997.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Congress needs to "ghost"

this whole administration,

These are CRIMINAL acts !

[DBoon]

2. Why does 1984 come to mind?

these people have just been "vaporized"

[Bonhomme Richard]

3. Dec. 7, 1941 Nacht und Nebel - Night and Fog

Intellectuals and resistance leaders were made to disappear into the Night and Fog.