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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Subject: Report Blames Rumsfeld for Detainee Abuses
To: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
If "responsibility" means anything in this administration, it must
mean that our public servants in the Executive branch are accountable
for decisions and actions made on their watch. In this case, secretary
Rumsfeld has been found to have put the U.S. in violation of our
treaty obligations under the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment. Since our constitution makes
our treaty obligations the supreme law of the land, this constitutes a
high crime. Our department of Justice would be derelict in its duties
to ignore such a transgression, even in the name of bipartisan amity.
Barry Levine
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