New Book Says Bush Officials Were Told of Detainee Abuse
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/pop/articles/12abuse.html
{EXCERPT} , By JOHN H. CUSHMAN Jr.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 - Senior military and national
security officials in the Bush administration were
repeatedly warned by subordinates in 2002 and 2003 that
prisoners in military custody were being abused, according
to a new book by a prominent journalist.
Seymour M. Hersh, a writer for The New Yorker who earlier
this year was among the first to disclose details of the
abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, makes the
charges in his book "Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11
to Abu Ghraib" (HarperCollins), which is being released
Monday. The book draws on the articles he wrote about the
campaign against terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and
Iraq.
Mr. Hersh asserts that a Central Intelligence Agency
analyst who visited the detention center at Guantnamo Bay,
Cuba, in the late summer of 2002 filed a report of abuses
there that drew the attention of Gen. John A. Gordon, a
deputy to Condoleezza Rice,...
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