He was going to get away with it.
It appeared that Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary under President George W. Bush who made besmirching the Constitution a national policy, was going to escape responsibility for the torture and abuse of prisoners that happened under his watch.
President Barack Obama didn't want to touch it, and the courts were showing the same yellow streak. Rumsfeld was going to spend his retirement writing self-congratulatory books and picking up hypocritical honors like the "Defender of the Constitution" Award bestowed on him this year by the American Conservative Union.
Not so fast.
Two cases this month, including one by a federal …
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