Rumsfeld Sued Over Torture in Iraq and Afghanistan by Jim Lobe: "Two major U.S. human rights groups Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Chicago against Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on behalf of eight named Afghan and Iraqi plaintiffs who say they were tortured and abused while in the custody of the U.S. military.

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"'Secretary Rumsfeld bears direct and ultimate responsibility for this descent into horror by personally authorizing unlawful interrogation techniques and by abdicating his legal duty to stop torture,' said Lucas Guttentag, lead counsel in the lawsuit and the director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, at a press conference in Washington Tuesday.

'He gives lip service to being responsible but has not been held accountable for his actions. This lawsuit puts the blame where it belongs, on the secretary of defense,'"

(Via Lew Rockwell.)