In signed memo, Rumsfeld authorized torture in 2002

The former US commander of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq said in an interview appearing yesterday that the outgoing US defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, authorized the mistreatment of detainees there.

when i read this story the other day, it clicked that i had a copy of the memo, written by the then-general counsel of the defense department, william haynes, to rumsfeld, asking for rumsfeld's authorization to use three categories of "counter-resistance interrogation techniques" at guantanamo... i've been hunting around in my files since then and finally found it...



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i particularly like his hand-written note at the end...

However, I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to 4 hours? D.R.

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