How much higher will the abuse scandal go? Surely Rumsfeld was aware of the new relaxed interrogation methods. He approved of using dogs at Guantanamo:
In January 2002, for example, Rumsfeld approved the use of dogs to intimidate prisoners there; although officials have said dogs were never used at Guantanamo, they were used at Abu Ghraib.
Then, in April 2003, Rumsfeld approved the use in Guantanamo of at least five other high-pressure techniques also listed on the Oct. 9 Abu Ghraib memo, none of which was among the Army’s standard interrogation methods. This overlap existed even though detainees in Iraq were covered, according to the administration’s policy, by Geneva Convention protections that did not apply to the detainees in Cuba.
But didn’t Rumsfeld deny under oath that he had any knowledge of such techniques in Iraq?
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