DEATH IN U.S. CUSTODY

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It adds, "In dozens of cases documented in the report, grossly inadequate reporting, investigation, and follow-through have left no one at all responsible for homicides and other unexplained deaths. Commanders have failed both to provide troops clear guidance, and to take crimes seriously by insisting on vigorous investigations. And command responsibility itself - the law that requires commanders to be held liable for the unlawful acts of their subordinates about which they knew or should have known - has been all but forgotten."

Which reminds me that "Command Responsibility" ought to begin with the Commander-in-Chief.

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William Fisher has managed economic development programs in the Middle East and elsewhere for the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development. He served in the international affairs area in the Kennedy Administration and now (more...)

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