"You and your report will be investigated"

Realized I never archived the Hersh story about Tagube's report - the straight dope, so to speak.

Rumsfeld and torture

He personally authorized it, or at least explicitly told his subordinates to step it up. In Germany they called it "Working toward the Fuehrer..."

More on Rummy and torture, and the Tagube report, from Andrew Sullivan. Who as usual is all over this stuff - check his posts for a few days surrounding these dates. He links to an online collection of documents concerning interrogation here.