Contractor claims of torture in Iraq due to U.S.military treatment.
Attorneys said the victim was abducted by U.S.military personnel and then tortured in a U.S.military detention center near Baghdad.
According to the government, the plaintiff suspected of leaking secrets to the enemy though never formally charged.
This is the second time a federal judge to allow a U.S.citizen to sue Rumsfeld torture-related charges there.
The man who got the verdict has been proved by a U.S.district court judge James Gwin as a veteran soldier who is now his 50s.
The man was released from the detention center Camp Cropper in Iraq in 2006.
Previous lawsuit
In 2008,he filed a lawsuit in a U.S.district court in Washington on the basis of the lawsuit Secretary Rumsfeld personally approved interrogation techniques do with torture case by case basis,writes the Associated Press.
Mike Kanovitz, a lawyer of the former contractor,assumed his client was detained to prevent the leaking of information about the contact he made with a sheikh when he was gathering intelligence information on Iraq.
Rumsfeld's position was represented at trial by the Obama administration,through the U.S.Department of Justice.
According to Rumsfeld,the defense can not be sued personally for his actions as an official duty,that its policies in the midst of war responsibility is a mandate granted by Congress by the president and can not be judged by a judge, and that the emergence of such cases could potentially posed a threat to the possibility similar effects that could interfere with military decisions taken in the future.
Rumsfeld appealed against the verdict of a judge in Illinois in 2010 stating that the former other contractors detained at Camp Cropper is also able to resume filing a claim to be victims of torture with a method approved by the former Minister of Defense.
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