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Bipartisan Report on Detainee Abuse Blames Rumsfeld, Other Top Bush Officials

 

Published 12/12/2008 by Joby Warrick and Karen DeYoung at Wash Post In Congress

A bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their decisions led to more serious abuses in Iraq and elsewhere. (link)

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