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May 06, 2005
Human Rights Watch: Getting Away With Torture
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us0405/
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees
Source: Human Rights Watch
"As this report shows, evidence is mounting that high-ranking U.S. civilian and military leaders — including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA Director George Tenet, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, formerly the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — made decisions and issued policies that facilitated serious and widespread violations of the law. The circumstances strongly suggest that they either knew or should have known that such violations took place as a result of their actions. There is also mounting data that, when presented with evidence that abuse was in fact taking place, they failed to act to stem the abuse."
Posted by lois at May 6, 2005 06:55 PM