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\"rumsfeldfingersclose.jpg\"Senate report: Rumsfeld to blame for detainee abuse
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\nFormer Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration “conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees,” claims a Senate Armed Services Committee report issued Thursday.
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\nAccording to the committee, prisoners were tortured in the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other US military installations. Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) were responsible for the content of the Senate’s findings.
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\nThe report determined that placing the blame on “a few bad apples,” as Bush administration officials attempted to do in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, is inappropriate.<\/p>\n

The policies were adopted after government assessments determined waterboarding and other torture techniques were “100 percent effective” at breaking the wills of US officers who underwent the military’s Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape program.<\/p>\n

The report finally claims that Rumsfeld’s torture policies “damaged our ability to collect accurate intelligence that could save lives, strengthened the hand of our enemies and compromised our moral authority.”<\/p>\n

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