More Evidence Torture Policy Came From Top Bush Administration Officials
In addition to the White House torture team, there is now even more evidence that the Bush administration torture policy came from senior officials proving that the administration's lies about a few rotten apples in the lower echelons were appalling.
Instead, the rot and decay that pervaded the top level became policy down through the many levels beneath; the entire Bush authoritarian, torture loving regime is corrupt especially Dubya and Dick.
From McClatchy news: "A senior Pentagon official in July 2002 sought the advice of military psychologists to help design aggressive detainee interrogation techniques that would later be linked with prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq, a Senate investigation has found.
"The revelation, part of a probe by the Senate Armed Services Committee that is to be unveiled during hearings Tuesday, provides dramatic new evidence that the use of the aggressive techniques was planned at the top levels of the Bush administration and were not the work of out-of-control, lower-ranking troops.
"A person familiar with the contents of the probe said that William Haynes, then the Defense Department's general counsel, asked a special agency within the Pentagon for help devising the techniques. The agency, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, normally designs programs to help captured U.S. military personnel resist interrogation and plot to escape.
"Committee investigators have discovered that the uniformed military's top lawyers objected to the harsh measures in 2002, before they were approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"While the objections of military lawyers to Bush administration detainee policies has been known, Senate investigators now believe those objections came far earlier than previously known — well before Rumsfeld approved the harsh techniques in a Dec, 2, 2002, memo.
"The committee also found that the Joint Chiefs of Staff was requested by senior military officers to conduct its own review of the proposed interrogation techniques. But the joint chiefs, then led by Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, never conducted the review."
Rumsfeld, Haynes, Myers, et al. should all be in the dock at the Hague for war crimes along with Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest of their high level criminal torture team.
Instead, the rot and decay that pervaded the top level became policy down through the many levels beneath; the entire Bush authoritarian, torture loving regime is corrupt especially Dubya and Dick.
From McClatchy news: "A senior Pentagon official in July 2002 sought the advice of military psychologists to help design aggressive detainee interrogation techniques that would later be linked with prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq, a Senate investigation has found.
"The revelation, part of a probe by the Senate Armed Services Committee that is to be unveiled during hearings Tuesday, provides dramatic new evidence that the use of the aggressive techniques was planned at the top levels of the Bush administration and were not the work of out-of-control, lower-ranking troops.
"A person familiar with the contents of the probe said that William Haynes, then the Defense Department's general counsel, asked a special agency within the Pentagon for help devising the techniques. The agency, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, normally designs programs to help captured U.S. military personnel resist interrogation and plot to escape.
"Committee investigators have discovered that the uniformed military's top lawyers objected to the harsh measures in 2002, before they were approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
"While the objections of military lawyers to Bush administration detainee policies has been known, Senate investigators now believe those objections came far earlier than previously known — well before Rumsfeld approved the harsh techniques in a Dec, 2, 2002, memo.
"The committee also found that the Joint Chiefs of Staff was requested by senior military officers to conduct its own review of the proposed interrogation techniques. But the joint chiefs, then led by Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, never conducted the review."
Rumsfeld, Haynes, Myers, et al. should all be in the dock at the Hague for war crimes along with Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest of their high level criminal torture team.
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