Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday.
Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation during interrogation.
That's from Reuters' " ." Connection to the snapshot today is Michael Ratner who's with the which is party to the suit against Donald the Rumsfled in Germany. He's a war criminal.
May that hang on his name the way it hangs on Henry Kissinger's. He'll probably walk, they usually do. But, if nothing else, he can live the rest of his days with every knowing what he did (how he degraded the country with his war crimes that destroyed people) and knowing that everyone knows it.
Now let's talk music for a moment. Canada's that A Bigger Bang is the Rolling Stones' most profitable tour ever. That cheered me up on a pretty blah day.
A Bigger Bang is their best album in years, decades. . And since I reviewed it, it's only grown on me more and more.
Before I left for Ireland, I was listening to it pretty much every day. If you haven't checked it out and you are a Stones fan or a fan of rock music, give it a listen. They have a huge following, especially on tour, but I hope that some people going are picking up the album.
While I was at CBC, I saw another thing I wanted to note.
