From: Gene McAloon 

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 09:44:05 +0200, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14131-2004Jun3.html
>
>"Pentagon officials previously said Rumsfeld helped approve a list of
>intense interrogation techniques for Guantanamo, but Army Gen. James T.
>Hill said for the first time yesterday that Rumsfeld had granted permission
>to use those techniques in two cases. Hill, who is in charge of the U.S.
>Southern Command based in Miami, told reporters at the Pentagon that both
>prisoners were considered "high-value" detainees who have
since provided
>important intelligence information about al Qaeda."
>
>So Rumsfled signed it all off.  Why is the USA putting its soldiers in jail
>when the fault lies in Washington?

I believe you have misread what the article says. Gen. Hill is claiming
that Rumsfeld signed off on using (unspecified) interrogation methods on
only two specific individuals at Gitmo and therefore and ipso facto bears
no responsibility for any other abuse that may have occurred at either
Gitmo or Baghdad.

It is entirely possible that Hill isn't lying, although there seems to be
quite a lot of lying going on as everyone tries to shift blame. Rumsfeld
may well have
actually personally approved interrogation methods used on those two and
not on any others. In that case, I would presume that those others were
subjected to the kind of things the photos show at Baghdad and god only
knows what else was done to the specific two he signed off on.

As for Hill's implied claim that the methods used were justified because
they yielded important information, well yeah, right.

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