WTF Is It Now?!?

Busted!
Sy Hersch pulls the rug out from under Rummy

“Some people think you can bullshit anyone.”

The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq.

Rumsfeld "authorized the establishment of a highly secret program that was given blanket advance approval to kill or capture and, if possible, interrogate 'high value' targets in the Bush Administration’s war on terror."

According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq.

“The White House subcontracted this to the Pentagon, and the Pentagon subcontracted it to Cambone (Stephen Cambone, Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence - a new office that had been created by Rumsfeld). “This is Cambone’s deal, but Rumsfeld and Myers approved the program.”

- snipped from Sy Hersch's new piece in The New Yorker.