Human Rights Watch decides Rumsfeld shouldn't be fired...he should be indicted. I wouldn't write this off as some lefty screed. HRW is known for being quite careful and sober, and it believes the evidence is there:
(New York, April 14, 2006) – Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for the torture of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay in late 2002 and early 2003, Human Rights Watch said today.
A December 20, 2005 Army Inspector General’s report, obtained by Salon.com this week, contains a sworn statement by Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt that implicates Secretary Rumsfeld in the abuse of detainee Mohammad al-Qahtani. Based on an investigation that he carried out in early 2005, which included two interviews with Rumsfeld, Gen. Schmidt describes the defense secretary as being “personally involved” in al-Qahtani’s interrogation.
Human Rights Watch urges the United States to name a special prosecutor to investigate the culpability of Rumsfeld and others in the al-Qahtani case.
“The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it’s whether he should be indicted,” said Joanne Mariner, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program director at Human Rights Watch. “General Schmidt’s sworn statement suggests that Rumsfeld may have been perfectly aware of the abuses inflicted on al-Qahtani.”
An indictment, of course, is never going to happen. But that's just the political reality, not the legal one.
He should probably be very careful as to where he travels.
Posted by: Randy Paul | April 14, 2006 at 10:44 PM
He will be traveling to Lexington, Virginia on Tuesday, May 16. A hundred or more concerned citizens will stand along the East Lexington Bridge (Rt. 11 north of town) to remind the public of his actions, and urge that he be held accountable for them.
Please feel welcome to join us if you're within traveling range. It's very near the interchange of I-81 and I-64 west.
Posted by: Nell | April 19, 2006 at 12:33 PM
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Posted by: Richard | November 03, 2010 at 03:12 PM