Retired General Dunlavey: "Guantanamo Mission Came Straight From Bush, Rumsfeld"

[kpete]

Orders From The Top:
Retired General Dunlavey: Guantanamo Mission Came Straight From Bush, Rumsfeld
by Lisa Thompson

"The directions changed and I got my marching orders from the President of the United States.”

When military investigators questioned Erie County Judge Michael E. Dunlavey about reported prisoner abuse during his tenure at the Guantanamo Bay camp for suspected terrorists, Dunlavey told them he got his “marching orders” from President Bush, according to a new book about U.S. policies regarding torture.

The book, “Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond,” relies on government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to trace the development of what the authors claim was prisoner abuse and torture that emerged in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The book uses Dunlavey’s words to place him, a retired two-star general in the U.S. Army Reserve, at the advent of the development of what have become disputed interrogation policies.

In a statement Dunlavey provided to a U.S. Air Force lieutenant general investigating FBI reports of detainee abuses at Guantanamo Bay, Dunlavey explains that as leader of interrogations at Guantanamo, he reported directly to President Bush and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/02/4987/

[MadMaddie]

1. Oh Dear....this guy should not get on any small planes...hope

he stays safe....this could be a smoking gun here folks.

Gasp...if he reported directly to Rummy and * that means....that they lied to the American public and they are war criminals.....the Hague anyone?