Gitmo Lawyers to File Charges against Rummy for War Crimes!

[rateyes]

From Salon's War Room, added a few minutes ago:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/

Detainees' lawyers want Rumsfeld tried for war crimes
Donald Rumsfeld may be looking forward to living out his golden years at his vacation home on the Eastern Shore, but lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay have other ideas. In a message just sent to reporters, they say they indend to file war crimes charges against Rumsfeld next week in Germany, arguing that his departure from the Department of Defense means that he's no longer entitled to immunity from prosecution.

It won't be the first time that lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights have tried to persuade German authorities to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes. They tried in 2004 -- the subject then was Abu Ghraib -- but German officials declined to pursue the matter because, they said, the United States was investigating on its own. Still, it's clear that Rumsfeld took the prospect of prosecution at least a little bit seriously at the time. Before German prosecutors announced that they wouldn't be taking up the case, Rumsfeld said he'd have to think twice about whether he could take the risk of traveling to Germany for a meeting there.

CCR lawyers say that, under Rumsfeld's direction, the Department of Defense has "adopted the practices of torture and indefinite detention" that they're challenging in a number of other cases.

-- Tim Grieve

[TAPat]

1. Please, please, please let them prevail! nt

[silverweb]

2. YES!

Rummy today, _georgie and dickhead tomorrow!

:bounce:

[Donnachaidh]

3. oh please yes!

Someone confiscate his passport before he heads for the Bush *ranch* in Paraguay.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Best news since yesterday -- K&R

[graywarrior]

5. Jack em all up against the wall

Cheney next.

[ThomCat]

6. The Nation has a big article about this

in this week's issue!

Go Get Him! I want to see all of them in chains!

[bunny planet]

7. Fuck yeah!!!!!

I'd heard rumblings about this last week. Interesting that he'd step down and leave himself wide open like that.
One can only hope it'll happen. No one deserves to be tried more than Rumsfeld, except for Jr. and Darth Dick that is.

[Vadem]

8. Please, don't forget his boss and his boss' assistant!!!!!....n/t

[elehhhhna]

9. Should Iraq try him, too -- for selling all that cpr@p to Saddam?

Just saying.

[rateyes]

10. Really.

[gordianot]

11. He needs to be treated under the law, why not as an enemy combatant?

[rateyes]

15. Good point. Lock him up and throw away the key! ...

No, I want to hear what he says as he tries to weasel out of it.

[babylonsister]

12. I thought Rummy et al are now protected under the modified War

Crimes Act written last month.:shrug:

[Jacobin]

13. He would look nice in a stripped suit

:-)

I don't believe in the death penalty, so I would prefer life in an Iraqi prison for Mr. Torture.

[Generator]

14. War crimes is so yesterday!

Can't we forgive and forget and move forward? Apparently the Dems have no ideas, we just want to prosecute the guilty. It's just so MEAN.

[rateyes]

16. I hear you...

:evilgrin:

[Pachamama]

17. So - Rummy avoids Germany, but what if, he went to a country that just happens to have an agreement

w/ Germany to extradite people to them? And what if this was unknown to Rummy? Poor Rummy might want to just never travel outside the US....He's hated everywhere in the world...they would all want to turn him over to the Germans....