Red Cross Finds Detainee Abuse in Guantánamo

This is an old news but related to the above story.

They (released documents) show that in December 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of techniques, such as the use of guard dogs to instill fear in detainees, stripping detainees nude, and the use of painful stress positions, that violate the law.

HRW Website.

Lets consider the following quote also.

We now know that at the highest levels of the Pentagon there was a shocking interest in using torture and a misguided attempt to evade the criminal consequences of doing so. If anyone still thinks the abuses at Abu Ghraib were only dreamed up by a handful of privates and sergeants, this memo should put that myth to rest.

Kenneth Roth Executive Director, Human Rights Watch