Ethics

Cert Denied in Gitmo Abuse Suit

By Ed Brayton

The Supreme Court denied certiorari in Rasul v Rumsfeld, a lawsuit from four British citizens against several high ranking Bush administration officials for their detention and abuse at Guantanamo Bay. That leaves the appeals court ruling in place, which said that the Bush officials were protected by qualified immunity because it wasn't clear at the time they were tortured that torture was illegal.

My colleague Daphne Eviatar writes about the ruling at the Washington Independent:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).