This torture happened IN JULY 2004, three months after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke:
Vanity Fair writer Donovan Webster, in a report on 60 hours of interviews he conducted with 10 former detainees including a 15-year-old boy, quoted several accounts of mistreatment that included Iraqi prisoners being sexually assaulted by American soldiers or being hooded, beaten, subjected to electric shock and kept in cages or crates.
One man said he was hung naked from handcuffs in a frigid room while soldiers threw buckets of ice water on him.
The New York Times runs with a scoop Wednesday: GONZALES INTERVENED DIRECTLY ON BUSH’S BEHALF for the ruling contained in the infamous “Torture Memos” that were revealed in June 2004 by the Wall Street Journal. Oh, and he announced he would recuse himself from the investigation of who leaked the WMD-prevention CIA agent’s name to Bob Novak. I wonder why?
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