A complaint filed against Rumsfeld asking a German federal prosecutor to begin an investigation and eventually a criminal prosecution will inevitably tie him to allegations of U.S. warranted torture...
CNN's senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin has sharply criticized the legal action to bring war crimes charges against Rumsfeld and other top U.S. officials in a German court.
A week after Rumsfeld's resignation, lawyers asked a German prosecutor to investigate Rumsfeld and other American officials for mistreatment of prisoners in military jails in Iraq and Cuba.