New Report: Rumsfeld ‘Personally Involved’ In Torture Allegations at Gitmo

Salon reports new evidence that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was intimately involved in prisoner abuse at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

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Rumsfeld developed an interrogation plan that required the Gitmo detainee to “stand naked in front of a female interrogator, was accused of being a homosexual, and was forced to wear women’s underwear and to perform ‘dog tricks’ on a leash.” Schmidt said that the open-ended policies Rumsfeld approved, and that the apparent lack of supervision of day-to-day interrogations permitted the wide-scale abuse to take place.

The report contradicts Rumsfeld’s earlier statements.

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I don't know precisely what part of the reports above is true - provided, some of it is testimony of military officer about a less-than-popular civilian boss. I mean, they could be biased. But then again, I would not be surprised if Rumsfeld's actions are relayed correctly. There does seem to be some petty cruelty to him. In short, if all of that is true I wouldn't be surprised.

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