How the Pentagon Turned an Interrogation Resistance Program into a Blueprint for Torture

By Spencer Ackerman | In August 2004, a Defense Dept. panel convened to investigate detainee abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal issued its much-anticipated report. Interrogation techniques designed for use at Guantánamo Bay, which President George W. Bush had decreed outside the scope of the Geneva Conventions, had “migrated” to Iraq, which Bush recognized was … Continue reading How the Pentagon Turned an Interrogation Resistance Program into a Blueprint for Torture