Why is Rumsfeld still Secretary of Defense?
Hell, why isn’t he on trial for war crimes, yet? This article claims that the head of the DoD approved the abuse at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib even though he knew it was a violation of the Geneva Convention and U.S. laws against torture. Mr. Rumsfeld claims that they broke no laws, as does the President, as is evident from his repeated claim that his order was that POWs and other detainees were to be treated within the bounds of the law. Of course, this duplicity is available to them due to the no infamous DOJ memo that says that the President is inherently above the law — able to set any law that is inconvenient to him aside. This philosophy is further pushed to claim that even if the President is bound by the law, Congress has no power to regulate the military, its rules, or how prisoners are treated because that would interefe with the President’s role as Commander-in-Chief. That of course reduces our systemof checks and balances to that of a petty military dictatorship, where the g
