Rumsfeld Approved Iraq Interrogation Plan -Report

[kentuck]

A corollary to Sy Hersh's report.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5154537&src=rss/topNews

<snip>
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved a plan that brought unconventional interrogation methods to Iraq to gain intelligence about the growing insurgency, ultimately leading to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, the New Yorker magazine reported on Saturday.

Rumsfeld, who has been under fire for the prisoner abuse scandal, gave the green light to methods previously used in Afghanistan for gathering intelligence on members of al Qaeda, which the United States blames for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the magazine reported on its Web site.

<snip>
The New Yorker said the CIA, which approved using high-pressure interrogation tactics against senior al Qaeda leaders after the 2001 attacks, balked at extending them to Iraq and refused to participate

[LittleApple81]

1. Dupe. Discussion of Hersh's article here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1606414

[kentuck]

4. Significant in that it tis also being reported by Reuters.....

Call it a dupe if you wish.... :)

[LittleApple81]

7. Sorry. My bad. Just read Hersh and nothing else.

:spank: :spank: (spanking myself)

[kentuck]

8. Hey! You no bad!

:)

[doni_georgia]

10. I googled it - International media has picked up the story

Australian The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/16/1084646055455.html

Swiss Politics
http://www.swisspolitics.org/en/news/index.php?section=int&page=news_inhalt&news_id=4937306

Financial Times of London
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/WireFeed/WireFeed&c=WireFeed&cid=1084193656761

South Afric News 24
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1527710,00.html

Nothing yet from any US media other than New Yorker (original piece) and Reuters

[whistle]

2. Is this the smoking gun?...

...How deep into the Bush administration does this authorization go? Stay tooned.:shrug:

[Kira]

3. Are any of the "major networks"

covering this story yet? If not when do you think this will break to the mainstream press?

[ScrewyRabbit]

5. Mentioned on both CNN and Fox in the last hour

But of course neither really went into significant detail.

[kentuck]

6. They always lag behind the "news"...

The Internet is the place to find the news...

[BlueEyedSon]

9. Ruh roh.....