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A number of prominent U.S. officials have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by some antiwar and human rights groups. None of these officials, however, are indicted by any legitimate prosecuting authority, domestic or international.

Johnson administration

  • Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, a prime architect of the Vietnam War. <ref>http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20010709&s=20010626</ref>




    • George W. Bush administration

  • John Conyers, Robert Parry and Marjorie Cohn<ref>http://www.tjsl.edu/index.cfm?sID_int=43&rID_int=4&xID=11</ref> -professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the American Association of Jurists- assert that the invasion of Iraq was not a war in self-defense but a war of aggression contrary to the U.N. Charter (a crime against peace) and therefore a war crime.<ref name="Conyers"> The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War: Investigative Status Report of the House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff</ref>
  • wiki_link="November_19" href="/November_19">november 19-04/quaint.htm The Quaint Mr. Gonzales By Marjorie Cohn, La Prensa San Diego Bilingual Newspaper, November 19 2004
  • The Impeachment of George W. Bush by Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation, January 11 2006
  • Who is accountable for Army's descent into torture? By David R. Irvine and Deborah Pearlstein, Salt Lake Tribune, March 4 06
  • On April 14, 2006, Human Rights Watch said that then Secretary Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for his alleged involvement in the abuse of Mohammad al-Qahtani.<ref> U.S.: Rumsfeld Potentially Liable for Torture Defense Secretary Allegedly Involved in Abusive Interrogation Human Rights Watch, April 14, 2006</ref>
  • On November 14, 2006, invoking universal jurisdiction, legal proceedings were started in Germany against Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers.<ref>Universal jurisdiction
  • Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse By ADAM ZAGORIN, Time

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  • The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is seen as an amnesty law for crimes committed in the War on Terror by retroactively rewriting the War Crimes Act<ref> Pushing Back on Detainee Act by Michael Ratner is president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Nation, October 4, 2006</ref> and by abolishing habeas corpus, effectively making it impossible for detainees to challenge crimes committed against them.<ref>Criticism on The Military Commissions Act 2006
  • Why The Military Commissions Act is No Moderate Compromise By MICHAEL C. DORF, FindLaw, Oct. 11, 2006


    • See also

  • Command responsibility
  • Crimes against humanity
  • List of war crimes
  • Geneva Conventions
  • Nuremberg Principles


    • References


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