US Senate Report considers former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld responsible for torture

Democracy Now!, 12 December 2008

Amy Goodman speaks with Wolfgang Kaleck

Alternative Nobel Prize award-winner Amy Goodman from Democracy Now! speaks with attorney Wolfgang Kaleck about the latest report of the US Senate. According to the report, former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld is directly responsible for the abusive interrogations of detainees at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay. Kaleck, General Secretary of the ECCHR, had sued Rumsfeld twice in Germany. The Senate's armed services committee concluded that Rumsfeld's approval of aggressive interrogation methods in December 2002 was a direct cause of abuses that began in Guantánamo and spread to Afghanistan and Iraq. 
 


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