Fascinating article by Seymour “Next Pulitzer a-Comin'” Hersh in this week’s New Yorker. It alleges that the abuses at Abu Ghraib happened because a “special-access program” established by Rumsfeld to authorize quick-response kill/capture/interrogate operations took hold there. Hersh does not allege that Rumsfeld knew of or authorized the particular abuses, only that his program of secret, rough interrogation enabled them.

But it’s a far more nuanced article than I’m letting on. And, of course, it’s well-told.

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