Summary
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorised the expansion of a secret programme that encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of prisoners to obtain intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq, a US magazine claims.
The Pentagon strongly denied the claims in the New Yorker magazine, which cited unnamed current and former intelligence officials.See the full content of this document
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Rumsfeld in Frame Over Torture Claims
Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita issued a statement calling the claims 'outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture'.
The st...See the full content of this document
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