Judge allows American to sue Rumsfeld over torture

[moderate libertarian]

One less known unknown.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RUMSFELD_TORTURE_SUIT?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-03-17-39-56

No word yet if Judges would allow Americans to sue Obama for any assassination of Americans without a trial.

[youngbuck]

But U.S. District Judge James Gwin rejected those arguments and said U.S. citizens are protected by the Constitution at home or abroad during wartime.


"The court finds no convincing reason that United States citizens in Iraq should or must lose previously-declared substantive due process protections during prolonged detention in a conflict zone abroad," Gwin wrote in a ruling issued Tuesday.


"The stakes in holding detainees at Camp Cropper may have been high, but one purpose of the constitutional limitations on interrogation techniques and conditions of confinement even domestically is to strike a balance between government objectives and individual rights even when the stakes are high," the judge ruled.



I'm glad the judge has some common sense.

[Mach]

Make sure you spread this around to all of those Obama supporters and show them where he is really coming from.....