The case against Rumsfeld

A Senate report lays blame for Abu Ghraib and other abuses

What happened

The Senate Armed Services Committee released a bipartisan report blaming former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials for the U.S. military’s inhumane treatment and abuse of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report rejects Bush administration assertions that Abu Ghraib and other abuse cases were “simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own.” (Los Angeles Times)

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