The guys over the Center for Constitutional Rights are probably fuming right now. The thought makes me all warm and fuzzy. Read my previous Rumsfeld posts here , here, and here.
Even though a German law requires German prosecutors to investigate allegations of war crimes even if they are not committed by Germans or in Germans, German Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said US authorities bore the initial responsibility to do so.
He added that his office could only act if US officials failed to do so, but said this was not the case. A US organization called Center for Constitutional Rights had filed the complained against Rumsfeld and other high-ranking officials in Germany for the role they played in torture and abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Good sense prevails.
So far the CCR is silent on the case, but I expect a press release before to long. I will post it here when I see it.
