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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Abu Ghraib prison scandal was not the result of a few misguided soldiers, but of a decision last year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to expand a clandestine operation against al Qaeda to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq, according to a report in The New Yorker.

Rumsfeld's goal was to bring the success of the secret terrorism program to Iraq in an effort to "generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency," the magazine reports.

The rules governing the secret operation were "Grab whom you must. Do what you want," according to a former intelligence official whom Seymour M. Hersh quotes anonymously in "The Gray Zone."

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GazzBut said:

Lets hope so..otherwise it might take a silver bullet.

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Ravus said:

If this was a democratic administration, it probably wouldn't have happened. All the scandals that have happened seem doubtful to have happened if a democrat was in office. First there was Enron, and since republicans try to favor and help "big business" like Enron it didn't surprise me in the least bit. Then there was the "faulty intelligence," and the democrats were telling the dumbass conservatives to wait anyway, but the Bush administration for some reason had military blueballs. Now there's the prison scandal, because they decided to apply the same interrogation techniques to Iraqis same as they do to al-Qaida. First of all, we probably wouldn't even have had the war with Iraq if a democrat was in office, and I doubt this would've happened even if the war did

Fuck republicans. Everyone makes a big deal because Clinton got a little head, but hell, we all need a good loving, if this country wasn't so uptight and ruled by conservative Christians it wouldn't have mattered anyway, and I'd rather have a president who likes to get some sweet lovin' than a president who makes unjustified wars, backs corrupt businesses and humilates and tortures prisoners

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