Original sentence: "  The Center for Constitutional Rights adds:....  This amendment is.According to Mariner, of Human Rights Watch, the effect is "that perpetrators of several categories of what were war crimes at the time they were committed, can no longer be punished under U.First, the MCA changed the definition of war crimes for which U.Government defendants may be prosecuted.Section 6 of the Military Commissions Act amended the War Crimes Act so that only actions on a specific list of "grave breaches" of Common Article 3 could be the basis for a prosecution, and it made that narrowed definition retroactive to November 26, 1997.The MCA’s restricted definitions arguably would exempt certain U.Under the War Crimes Act of 1996, the war crimes that could be criminally prosecuted included any violation of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.designed to protect U.government perpetrators of abuses during the "war on terror" from prosecution.officials who have implemented or had command responsibility for coercive interrogation techniques from war crimes prosecutions
Edited sentence: Because of this, investigations into possible wrongdoing in the War on Terror seem unlikely within the United States; therefore the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights have started legal proceedings in Germany, invoking universal jurisdiction.Human Rights First and the Center for Constitutional Rights observe that the MCA effectively absolves the Bush administration and others for possible crimes committed in the War on Terror by negating the principle of command responsibility.Most notably, the US Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan v.Rumsfeld that the Geneva Convention applies to all prisoners.Since the War Crimes Act of 1996 defined any breach of Geneva as a war crime, this opened up the possiblility for legal challenges for anyone involved in the abuse of detainees.The MCA rewrote the War Crimes Act retroactively to November 26, 1997, making those offenses which were considered war crimes before the MCA was adopted no longer punishable under US law