Rumsfeld gave go-ahead for Abu Ghraib tactics, says general in charge 

Tuesday, July 6, 2004 at 01:30PM
TheSpook

The former head of the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad has for the first time accused the American Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, of directly authorising Guantanamo Bay-style interrogation tactics. Brig-Gen Janis Karpinski, who commanded the 800th Military Police Brigade, which is at the centre of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, said that documents yet to be released by the Pentagon would show that Mr Rumsfeld personally approved the introduction of harsher conditions of detention in Iraq. [more]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).