From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:30:15 +0000, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> "One of the memorandums released on Monday provided the account of an
> FBI agent who observed "serious physical abuses" in Iraq.

You're missing the important part:

"FBI E-Mail Refers to   ***Presidential Order***
Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques" [my emphasis]

http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=17216&c=206

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NEW YORK -- A document released for the first time today by the American
Civil Liberties Union suggests that President Bush issued an Executive
Order authorizing the use of inhumane interrogation methods against
detainees in Iraq.
[...]
The two-page e-mail that references an Executive Order states that the
President directly authorized interrogation techniques including sleep
deprivation, stress positions, the use of military dogs, and "sensory
deprivation through the use of hoods, etc." The ACLU is urging the
White House to confirm or deny the existence of such an order and
immediately to release the order if it exists. The FBI e-mail, which was
sent in May 2004
 from "On Scene Commander--Baghdad" to a handful of senior FBI officials,
notes that the FBI has prohibited its agents from employing the techniques
that the President is said to have authorized...
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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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