All The Way To The Top

The lawyer for one of the acused soldiers just said on MSNBC that the military was using the pictures to “break” prisoners who they suspected of knowing where the weapons of mass destruction were.

If that is the case, then I think Rumsfeld and the White House knew about the torture and may have ok’d it directly.

I had thought that the abuse was centered on intelligence about the insurgency, in which case it was feasible that it was something that got out of hand on the ground. But, the lack of WMD is the worst and most embarrassing of the myriad Bush failures, and a particular hobby horse of micro-managers Cheney and Rummy. If that was the focus of the interrogations then I think it goes all the way to the top.