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Video: If Obama Won't Prosecute Torture, Spain Will

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Michael Ratner

Video (13min 45sec): If Obama Won't Prosecute Torture, Spain Will.

This movement has grown, particularly as the memos have come out, and as the Senate Armed Services Committee with an over 200 page report, really nailing Donald Rumsfeld and the lawyers that supported him in the 'Rumsfeld Techniques Torture Program'.

The Spanish prosecutions. Two weeks ago Garzon, the Spanish judge who indicted Pinochet many years ago in Spain and did it successfully, began a criminal an investigation or the preliminary steps for one, against six of the lawyer who were involved in the torture program.

Who is this Donald Rumsfeld, and why is he doing these terrible things to me...?