Can Europe Teach the Playpen Justice ?

At least there is another effort to force one denizen of the playpen to answer to charges he condoned &/or ordered torture of prisoners. Rumsfeld has been charged in France. Perhaps he will, under cross-examination in a court of law, finally have to explain what he thinks his actions had to do with protecting the system of justice and law on which democracy is based.

The following links provide more information. The French link has further links to the court documents themselves.

Rumsfeld poursuivi en France pour tortures
Libération, 26. octobre 2007

Donald Rumsfeld dans le viseur de la justice. Plusieurs organisations de défense des droits de l’homme ont déposé plainte pour torture à l’encontre l’ancien secrétaire américain à la Défense Donald Rumsfeld (2001-2006), de passage à Paris depuis jeudi.
La Fédération internationale des droits de l’Homme (FIDH), la Ligue française des droits de l’Homme (LDH), l’organisation américaine Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) et l’association allemande European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) reprochent à Rumsfeld d’avoir été l’instigateur de sévices contre des prisonniers détenus dans les geôles de Guantanamo à Cuba et d’Abou Ghraib en Irak.

The New York Times
International / Europe
Groups Tie Rumsfeld to Torture in Complaint
By DOREEN CARVAJAL
Published: October 27, 2007

PARIS, Oct. 26 — Several human rights organizations based in the United States and Europe have filed a complaint in a Paris court accusing former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture.

The Washington Post
Torture Complaint Filed Against Rumsfeld
By PIERRE-ANTOINE SOUCHARD The Associated Press Friday, October 26, 2007; 2:57 PM

PARIS -- American and European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.