we spoke with then ccr president michael ratner from berlin. we did was file a 220 page complaint against 14 high-level u.s. officials, rumsfeld being the lead one. general sanchez being in there. and a number of the lawyers who wrote some of the so-called torture memos, particularly lawyers. the procedure is you file the complaint with the prosecutor and the prosecutor then decides whether or to have an investigation. we did file a similar case in 2004. the prosecutor and 2004 dismissed the case. he dismissed it for legal reasons on the face of it, but political reasons, as well. he said the united states, it appeared to him, was still investigating up the chain of command and making the effort to look into who is responsible for the war crimes in the torture. we thought that was the wrong ruling then, we did not think there was any evidence that u.s. was looking up the chain of command. in a different situation that makes an excuse irrelevant and not possible again. two things that happen. 1.5 years of happen since we filed the last case and n