Germany’s federal prosecutor announced she will not be proceeding with an investigation against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet, and other high-ranking U.S. officials for torture and other war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantnamo, according to a press release obtained by RAW STORY.

“The 400-page complaint was filed on November 14, 2006, by Berlin attorney Wolfgang Kaleck on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Republican Attorneys’ Association (RAV), more than 40 other international and national human rights groups, 12 Iraqi citizens who were held in Abu Ghraib, and one Saudi citizen still held at Guantnamo,” the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) press release continues.

CCR president Michael Ratner told the Associated Press in a telephone call from New York, “If Germany is not willing to enforce their law we think other countries will be - we’re not going to leave a stone unturned.”

“It took 35 years to get (former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto) Pinochet and it won’t take that long with the Rumsfeld case,” Ratner added. “I think everyone recognizes that high-level U.S. officials ran a torture program around the world.”

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