Salon obtains torture report under FOIA

Salon has obtained a Dec. 20, 2005 Army inspector general's report on interrogations conducted at Guantanamo. The report shows that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was well aware of what army inspectors termed as "degrading and abusive" treatment of prisoners.

In a sworn statement to the inspector general, Schmidt described Rumsfeld as "personally involved" in the interrogation and said that the defense secretary was "talking weekly" with Miller. Schmidt said he concluded that Rumsfeld did not specifically prescribe the more "creative" interrogation methods used on Kahtani. But he added that the open-ended policies Rumsfeld approved, and that the apparent lack of supervision of day-to-day interrogations permitted the abusive conduct to take place. "Where is the throttle on this stuff?" asked Schmidt, an Air Force fighter pilot, who said in his interview under oath with the inspector general that he had concerns about the length and repetition of the harsh interrogation methods. "There were no limits."

"What Rumsfeld Knew" [Salon]

UPDATED 4/15/06:

The Pentagon calls the report "fiction," even though Salon has a hard copy of the document. [MSNBC]