Administration of Torture

When the same abuses are taking place in prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba and God knows where else, they are not isolated incidents. They are not coincidences.

President Bush gave "marching orders" to Gen. Michael Dunlavey, who asked the Pentagon to approve harsher interrogation methods at Guantanamo, the general claims in documents reported in the book.

The ACLU also found that an Army investigator reported Rumsfeld was "personally involved" in overseeing the interrogation of a Guantanamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani. The prisoner was forced to parade naked in front of female interrogators wearing women's underwear on his head and was led around on a leash while being forced to perform dog tricks.

One of the first question I asked when I saw Lynndie England holding a dog leash with a prostrate Iraqi man on the other end was, "If these incidents are the isolated actions of prison guards working the third shift, as the administration contends, where did she get the leash?” I doubt she brought it with her to Iraq, and she probably didn’t have a lot of free time to go shopping after she arrived.