All the torture Done In Our Names and Under The Countries Flag and Constitution, Laws!!
Group Takes Up Lawsuit Charging Rumsfeld And Others Should Be Held Accountable For Unlawful Detention And Abuse Of U.S. Citizen
February 14, 2011 - CHARLESTON, SC – The American Civil Liberties Union was in federal court in Charleston today to argue that a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other government officials for their role in the unlawful detention and torture of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla should not be thrown out. The ACLU was recently retained to represent Jose Padilla and his mother in the lawsuit.
“Jose Padilla was seized from a New York jail and hidden away in a military brig so that the Bush administration could subject him to brutal abuse without the interference of the courts. Now, the architects of Padilla’s unlawful ordeal are demanding that the courts look away once again,” said Ben Wizner, Litigation Director of the ACLU National Security Project, who argued on Padilla’s behalf. “The court should make clear that Donald Rumsfeld and other officials who abused their authority are not above the law.” {continued}
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