In a Democracy Now! interview, the Center For Constitutional Rights' Michael Ratner says of outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
"So this guy has committed -- without any question, this guy has committed war crimes, violations of the Geneva Conventions."
Because the recently passed Military Commissions Act (aka: The Torture Act) included immunity for all administration officials from war crimes prosecution, the CCR is initiating a case in German courts next week, "under their law, which is universal jurisdiction, which basically says a torturer is essentially an enemy of all humankind and can be brought to justice wherever they’re found."
Ratner calls him the next Henry Kissinger, due to Kissinger's inability to leave the homeland for fear of prosecution.
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