ACLU Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld on Abuse to Be Heard in D.C. Federal Court

[cyberpj]

Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld to Be Heard in Federal Court in the District of Columbia
June 22, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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WASHINGTON -- A lawsuit that seeks to hold Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others directly responsible for the abuse and torture of detainees in U.S. military custody will be heard in a federal court in the District of Columbia, a seven-judge panel ruled yesterday. The lawsuit, which was the first to name Secretary Rumsfeld in the ongoing torture scandal in Afghanistan and Iraq, was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First on behalf of eight Afghan and Iraqi men who were tortured while they were held in U.S. detention facilities.

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=18561&c=206

[Independent_Liberal]

1. Kick!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Boy howdy... if they can't take a little hazing, I don't know how they

are going to compete in the global capitalistic arena.... pity.

[unhappycamper]

3. Now that Janice is there, it's no longer an issue. n/t

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Go bite them

Bite I say x(
Make Lady Liberty smile again

[libodem]

5. I'm sure these 8 are just a drop in the bucket

some of the ones that have been let go had to sign papers that they wouldn't tell what happened to them. I have a feeling there have been many who went out feet first and we'll never know there stories. Plus I think a lot of the torture is farmed out to the private contractors, who are protected and concealed. Then there are the FBI and the CIA, torture'ers,....makes it hard to pin on anybody....I hope these 8 get heard and the world hears, too. And part of that comes from the blatant denials of wrong doing and the minimizing of the abuse....

[orleans]

6. YEAH!!!!!