A British International lawyer, Philippe Sands, has recently authored and published his new book called " Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values ", telling of the US abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Called upon as a witness for the U.S. committee for Congress, he writes of his experiences with a forensic examination of the U.S. system's outlawing of torture, a system which quickly reversed a memo which was signed by Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense, authorizing torture at Abu Ghraib.

The author's book concludes with the theory that all those involved are open to being charged with war crimes, with the next president deciding if the current President and Vice-President should be charged with war crimes. Phillipe Sands had decided to become more involved when President Bush's general counsel, Alberto Gonzales "released a series of documents including that memo approving the new interrogation techniques" in order to head off the Abu Ghraib scandal.

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