The New Yorker said the interrogation plan was a highly classified "special access program," or SAP, that gave advance approval to kill, capture or interrogate so-called high-value targets in the battle against terror.Such secret methods were used extensively in Afghanistan but more sparingly in Iraq -- only in the search for former President Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction. As the Iraqi insurgency grew and more U.S. soldiers died, Rumsfeld and Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence Stephen Cambone expanded the scope to bring the interrogation tactics to Abu Ghraib, the article said.
The Bush Administration is reaping what it has sown. Rumsfeld micro-managed the whole war yet before Congress he acted like a guy who wasn't quite sure of what was happening when he was asked about the torturous treatment of prisoners. These guys give Christian fundamentalism the same name the Spanish Inquisition did. Unfortunately they are also tainting the name of the U.S. with their rabid beliefs and lawless ways.