Indictment Against rumsfeld To Proceed

Judge Approves Suit Against Former Defense Secretary

A U.S. District Court judge Friday told two former U.S. contractors in Iraq that they could go forward with a suit that seeks to hold former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responsible for their torture, by the U.S. military.

Attorneys for Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel allege that the only crime the men committed was reporting to the FBI on payoffs to local sheiks and other illegal activities by their employer.

Judge Wayne Andersen said that Vance and Ertel had alleged enough specifics to keep their suit against Rumsfeld moving forward, although he did not say that the contractors had proven their claims. >>>>>

Torture memos resemble Clarence Thomas' way of thinking

The Supreme Court justice has a history of dismissing prisoner brutality. And it's his former law clerk who was investigated for authorizing harsh interrogation tactics as a Justice Department lawyer.

According to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a prisoner who was slammed to a concrete floor and punched and kicked by a guard after asking for a grievance form -- but suffered neither serious nor permanent harm -- has no claim that his constitutional rights were violated.

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Thomas' consistent record of dismissing claims of prison brutality, most of them joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, shows that Yoo's view of torture was not that of a rogue lawyer. Instead, it represents a strain of conservative thinking that looks back in history to define cruelty and torture, rather than toward what the court has called the "evolving standards of decency." >>>>>

The article shows his, and this new so called U.S. conservatism, total lack of concern as to our soldiers and the civilian population. Doing what we've consistently condemned others as doing opens the soldier to the exact treatment if captured and brings blowback on any civilian anywhere, And We Cannot Voice Any Outrage When It Occurs, for no one will listen! Torture, as to our once supported friend, was just one of the many reasons given to invade and destroy an innocent country,Iraq!