Donald Rumsfeld was directly linked to prisoner abuse for the first time yesterday, when it emerged he had been personally involved in a Guant\u00e1namo Bay interrogation found by military investigators to have been degrading and abusive.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb According to a December report by the <\/em>[U.S. Army] inspector general, obtained by Salon.com online magazine, the investigators did not accuse the defence secretary of specifically prescribing creative techniques, but they said he regularly monitored the progress of the al-Kahtani interrogation by telephone, and they argued he had helped create the conditions that allowed abuse to take place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Where is the throttle on this stuff? asked Lt Gen Schmidt, an air force officer who said in sworn testimony to the inspector general that he had concerns about the duration and repetition of harsh interrogation techniques. He said that in his view: There were no limits.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb The investigators found Mr Rumsfeld was talking weekly with<\/em> [Maj Gen Geoffrey Miller, who ran the Guant\u00e1namo camp in 2002] about the al-Qahtani interrogation. In December 2002, the defence secretary approved 16 harsh interrogation techniques for use on Mr al-Qahtani, including forced nudity, and stress positions. However approval was revoked in 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Gen Miller insisted he was unaware of details of the interrogation, but Gen Schmidt said he found that hard to believe in view of Mr Rumsfeld’s evident interest in its progress. Gen James Hill, former head of Southern Command, recalled Gen Miller recommending continuation of the interrogation, saying We think we’re right on the verge of making a breakthrough. Gen Hill then passed on the request to Mr Rumsfeld. The secretary said, Fine,’ Gen Hill remembered.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 16 avril 2006 \u00e0 12H39<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Il y a fort \u00e0 penser que la fuite ayant permis \u00e0 la publication Salon.com de disposer d’un rapport de d\u00e9cembre 2005 impliquant indirectement Rumsfeld dans un interrogatoire renforc\u00e9 doit \u00eatre consid\u00e9r\u00e9e dans la logique de l’affrontement entre le secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense et les g\u00e9n\u00e9raux. Dans la querelle publique actuelle entre Rumsfeld et les… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5295,569,5296,4281],"class_list":["post-67461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-rapport","tag-rumsfeld","tag-salon-com","tag-torture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}