Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by two former U.S. workers for an Iraqi security firm who claimed they were wrongly detained and suffered cruel, inhumane treatment.

U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen in Chicago ruled yesterday that the men, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, can move forward on one of three claims they filed in 2006 against Rumsfeld and the U.S. government.

Vance and Ertel, who worked for Shield Group Security, an Iraqi-owned business in that country, were taken into custody by U.S. forces after reporting what they believed to be suspicious and possibly corrupt activity by agents of their employer, according to a revised complaint filed in 2007.

This is going to be one interesting case to watch play out. Continue reading the rest of this article, including Rumsfeld’s defense, over at BusinessWeek. Turned out to be a bad week for Rumsfeld all around. Here’s this next piece:

Judge orders freedom for alleged 9/11 plotter tortured on Rumsfeld’s orders

A terror war prisoner, once considered of such high value by the Bush administration that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered he be tortured, has taken his first step toward freedom thanks to a federal district court judge, who ordered the government to free him after nearly 10 years of imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay.

Though 39-year-old Mohamedou Slahi, an alleged 9/11 conspirator, won his habeas corpus appeal before U.S. District Judge James Robertson on Monday, he likely does not know it yet. That’s because the judge’s decision was classified, according to published reports.

Not gonna spoil this one here. Hop on over to RawStory to finish reading the details about this case. Unbelievable!