Efforts to Hold Donald Rumsfeld and Other High-level United States Officials Accountable for Torture

The US is failing to investigate and prosecute high-level officials responsible for the implementation of "enhanced interrogation techniques" amounting to torture in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan. These policies originated at the highest level, but investigations conveniently blamed it all on a few "bad apples" rather than look up the chain of command. In the absence of domestic prosecution, complaints have been filed in Germany, France and Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction. But German and French courts have dismissed the cases on obvious political grounds, while Spain is facing pressure from the US - as well as China and Israel - to limit its application of universal jurisdiction...More