A federal judge has ruled that former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld can be sued for allegedly order the unjust detention and torture of American citizens working or serving in Iraq. Civil suits are proceeding against Rumsfeld filed on behalf of at least two plaintiffs who claim to have been tortured at Camp Cropper, a holding facility for ‘high value detainees’ while working for the US government in the Anbar Province.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will have to defend himself in court following a federal judge’s decision to green-light a lawsuit from an Army veteran who claims he was imprisoned and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq.
The veteran, whose identity is being withheld by the court, says he worked for an American contracting company as a translator for the U.S Marines in the dangerous Anbar province. He was scheduled to return home on leave, but instead was arrested by the military and imprisoned for nine months at Camp Cropper, where the U.S. confined “high-value” detainees.
According to his lawsuit, he was repeatedly abused before being released without explanation in August 2006.
He filed his lawsuit in 2008 and named Rumsfeld as a defendant, arguing that the defense secretary personally approved torturous interrogation techniques on a case-by-case basis.
