When the world's leading human rights organization calls for a special prosecutor for two specific individuals, Donald Rumsfeld and George Tenet, we should pay attention. Here's Reed Brody, announcing the report on the first anniversary of the photographic revelations of the horrors of Abu Ghraib:
"A year after Abu Ghraib, the United States continues to do what dictatorships and banana republics do the world over when their abuses are discovered—cover up the scandal and shift blame downwards," said Brody. "A wall of immunity surrounds the architects of the policy that led to all these crimes."
Among HR Watch's findings:
There is no evidence that, over a three-year period of mounting reports of abuse, Rumsfeld exerted his authority and warned those under his command that the mistreatment of prisoners must stop. Had he done so, many of the crimes committed by U.S. forces certainly could have been avoided.