28 March 2007

No culpability - no accountability

A US Federal judge has dropped a lawsuit against former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others for torture not because there wasn't a case to answer but because "authorizing monetary damages remedies against military officials engaged in an active war would invite enemies to use our own federal courts to obstruct the Armed Forces' ability to act decisively and without hesitation".

Sad news indeed.

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