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"Stress positions, removal of clothing, use of phobias," topped the list of techniques used against prisoners, NBC's Andrea Mitchell reminded us. The Senate committee traced the abuses from abu-Ghraib, through Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, back to the Pentagon, contradicting assertions at the time that the outrages were the responsibility of a handful of freelancing rogue guards. CBS' David Martin pointed out that the abusive techniques were researched by brass in July 2002 and approved by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld five months later. Rumsfeld "subsequently rescinds that memo" but the tactics continued to be used anyway. Martin quoted a general as labeling them "depravity and degradation rather than humane treatment." NBC's Mitchell added that members of Congress, including now-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and soon-to-be CIA Director Porter Goss, were briefed at the time "and reportedly did not dissent."
As for the CIA's torture of detainees, CBS' Martin pointed out that the Senate Intelligence Committee made clear "it was done with the full knowledge and permission of the White House. Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice personally gave then-CIA Director George Tenet the go-ahead."
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