German Group Files War Crimes Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Other CIA Officials*

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That should put the brakes on their international travel for awhile.

Originally posted on Hwaairfan's Blog:

German Group Files War Crimes Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Other CIA Officials*

By Ryan Denson

If President Obama won’t do it, someone else will. Thankfully, a human rights group in Berlin, The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, has begun the process of indicting members of the Bush Administration by filing criminal complaints against the architects of the Admin’s torture program.

Calls for an immediate investigation by the German human rights group was started after outrage ensued on the case of a German citizen, Khalid El-Masri, who had been captured by CIA agents in 2004  because of a mistaken identity mix-up and was tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan.

Wolfgang Kaleck, the general secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, said:

“By investigating members of the Bush administration, Germany can help to ensure that those responsible for abduction, abuse and illegal detention do not go unpunished.”

In an interview with “Democracy…

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