putty's Blog tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/putty//8308 2008-12-11T22:22:09Z Movable Type Pro 4.21-en Bipartisan Senate report: Rumsfeld and other top administration officials directly responsible for abuses of detainees tag:www.talkingpointsmemo.com,2008:/talk/blogs/putty//8308.247789 2008-12-11T22:02:25Z 2008-12-11T22:22:09Z putty Forget the BlagObamagate crap sucking up most of the available media bandwith.  Here is the lead paragraph of the current top story from the Washinton Post online:

"A bipartisan Senate report released today says that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials are directly responsible for abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and charges that decisions by those officials led to serious offenses against prisoners in Iraq and elsewhere."

Full story is here.  Massive kudos to reporter Joby Warrick for laying it out clearly and the WaPo for putting this front and center where it belongs.  The report makes it clear that the sanctioning of prisoner abuse (TORTURE) originated with The Decider himself.  This should get top billing from all news orgs and be seared into the brains of all Americans.  Not to mention providing further motiviation for war crimes prosecutions.

BTW, the report was released by Senators Carl Levin and John McCain.

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