Fred Kaplan, in Slate summarizes the latest news regarding Abu Ghraib:
The gist is that last year, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put in place a secret operation that, in Hersh's words, "encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq."
Hersch also alleges that one George W. Bush--again to paraphrase from Dr. Strangelove--heard about the preversions. But alas, there's no evidence that anyone was leading a mutiny of preverts, unless you consider Rummy's extreme makeover, Pentagon edition, to be just that.
I don't know--maybe they were so obsessed with Saddam because, deep down, they envied him...
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