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Rumsfeld linked to Abu Ghraib abuse
David Morgan
Reuters
Friday, Dec 12, 2008
Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S.
officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions
of a report released on Thursday by the Senate Armed Services
Committee.
The report's executive summary, made public by the committee's
Democratic chairman Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan and its top Republican
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said Rumsfeld contributed to the
abuse by authorizing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo
Bay on December 2, 2002.
He rescinded the authorization six weeks later. But the report
said word of his approval continued to spread within U.S. military
circles and encouraged the use of harsh techniques as far away
as Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The report concluded that Rumsfeld's actions were "a direct
cause of detainee abuse" at Guantanamo and "influenced
and contributed to the use of abusive techniques ... in Afghanistan
and Iraq."
"The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib in late 2003 was not
simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own,"
the executive summary said
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