Getting Away with Torture?
Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees

   Executive Summary

   Recommendations

I. Official Sanction of Crimes against Detainees

II. A World of Abuse

III. Getting Away with Torture

In-house Investigations down the Chain of Command

Prosecuting Some Soldiers, Belatedly

IV. Impunity for the Architects of Illegal Policy

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

Former CIA Director George Tenet

Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez

Major General Geoffrey Miller

Other Generals in Iraq

Abu Ghraib-based Officers

V. Non-Governmental Attempts at Accountability

VI. The Need for a Special Prosecutor

VII. An Independent Commission

   Annex — A Note on Command Responsibility

   Acknowledgements

April 2005   Vol. 17, No. 1(G)