Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., an Army Reserve member, volunteered to legally oversee interrogations at Abu Ghraib. The Pentagon turned him down flat. Buyer had done a similar job in 1991 and volunteered to do the same in 2003.
“I’m not a lawyer. My impression is that what has been charged thus far is abuse, which I believe technically is different from torture … I don’t know if it is correct to say what you just said, that torture has taken place, or that there’s been a conviction for torture. And therefore I’m not going to address the torture word.” – Donald Rumsfeld at Tuesday’s press briefing
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