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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-09-06 08:31 AM
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A federal judge on Friday seemed reluctant to give Donald Rumsfeld immunity from torture allegations
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Judge hears torture claim

Associated Press
Published December 9, 2006


WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday seemed reluctant to give Donald Rumsfeld immunity from torture allegations, yet said it would be unprecedented to let him face a civil trial.

"What you're asking for has never been done before," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan told American Civil Liberties Union lawyers. snip

If their suit were to go forward, it could force Rumsfeld and the Pentagon to disclose what officials knew about abuses at prisons such as Abu Ghraib in Iraq and what was done to stop it.
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Me. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-09-06 09:27 AM
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1. The Lovely Judge Hogan
The very one who sent Judy Miller to jail
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