Rumsfeld at Large

Frontline aired a program last week that sheds light on a dark subject -- it seems most Americans would rather not face this subject, but I strongly recommend that you take the time to see this program, which is available on-line. You can view it here. A synopsis excerpted from the Frontline website follows:

"The Torture Question" traces the aggressive development of the administration's interrogation policy in the aftermath of 9/11, where the push for "actionable intelligence" led to authorization for interrogators to strip detainees, degrade prisoners with sexual humiliation techniques and use dogs for intimidation. [..]

FRONTLINE follows the implementation of the Rumsfeld rules from the battlefields of Afghanistan to the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, where eventually the FBI began to document a trail of abuses by interrogators. [..]

"The Torture Question" provides the context for understanding how the rules
were confused, how lines of authority were blurred, and what happens when the
authorization of "coercive interrogation" makes it way into the battle zone.

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