Bush officials pressured underlings to use torture

Top Bush Administration officials pressured underlings to use torture tactics at Guantanamo RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday April 2, 2008

Of Guantanamo interrogators: "You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas."

"Torture at Guantánamo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense, according to the international lawyer and professor of law at University College London Philippe Sands, who has conducted a forensic examination of the chain of command leading from the top of the administration to the camp at Guantánamo," Vanity Fair will report on newstands today.

The article directly contradicts the administration's account to Congress, which placed responsibility on military commanders and interrogators on the ground for the practices banned by the Geneva Conventions.

Excerpts from the magazine's release follow. The full story is available here. link