More pictures have surfaced, sadly, sickeningly – and unsurprisingly.
US defence officials say that in late 2002, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a request by interrogators to use some techniques that went beyond normal military doctrine.
However, they add that the changes were later scaled back after objections from military lawyers.
Note that they say “scaled back”, not “revoked entirely”.
What I want to know is what is Stage Sanctioned Interrogation for the purpose of gaining security intelligence and what is racist abuse of prisoners.
Not that one is particularly more savoury than the other but it does attribute blame to different parties.