The U.S. military official who ran Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison until 2004 told a Spanish paper she’d seen a document signed by outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld which authorized harsh treatment of detainees, Reuters reports. The memo doesn’t appear to have covered the most shocking forms of abuse that have been revealed — attack dogs, forced nudity, faked electrocutions:
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