{"id":1110,"date":"2012-02-08T19:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/08\/court-rehears-whistleblowers-torture-suit-against\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:14","slug":"court-rehears-whistleblowers-torture-suit-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/08\/court-rehears-whistleblowers-torture-suit-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Rehears Whistleblower\u2019s Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld | The Dissenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1154892236\/court-rehears-whistleblower-s-torture-suit-against-rumsfeld-the-dissenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1154892236\/court-rehears-whistleblower-s-torture-suit-against-rumsfeld-the-dissenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/xlV0CMerzbDvsuzajOMzKDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>The suit, brought by Donald Vance, a US navy veteran and former defense contractor, and Nathan Ertel, also a former defense contractor, alleges Rumsfeld is responsible for \u201cintentional mistreatment\u201d that occurred when they were tortured in an American-run prison in Iraq for nearly one hundred days.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dissenter.firedoglake.com\/2012\/02\/08\/court-rehears-whistleblowers-torture-suit-against-rumsfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via dissenter.firedoglake.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThe suit, brought by Donald Vance, a US navy veteran and former defense contractor, and Nathan Ertel, also a former defense contractor, alleges Rumsfeld is responsible for \u201cintentional mistreatment\u201d that occurred when they were tortured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/08\/court-rehears-whistleblowers-torture-suit-against\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1503,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/08\/07\/new-evidence-reveals-us-military-used\/","url_meta":{"origin":1110,"position":0},"title":"New Evidence Reveals US Military Used Waterboarding-Style Torture, Despite Rumsfeld\u2019s Denials | The Public Record","author":"aslam","date":"August 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesIn the controversy over whether torture, especially waterboarding, was used to gather information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity recently that \u201cno one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the US military. 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