In a report issued by Democrat Senator Carl Levin of Michigan and Republican Senator of Arizona John McCain, blame for the inhumane treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other facilities falls on the Bush Administration and Donald Rumsfeld.
The Senate Armed Services Committee aimed their attention at the use of SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape) techniques that are commonly used on American soldiers to train for times of capture, against detainees in U.S. custody. These methods include nudity, stress positions, waterboarding, fear and others. The report published by Levin and McCain exposed the inquiry made by top Defense Department officials regarding the use of SERE techniques against prisoners of war.
The report rejects the ideas that the soldiers at Abu Ghraib were acting on their own, but instead were following orders that were approved by top military officers and Rumsfeld himself.
Much of the report is still considered classified and the information cannot be released, however what has been published clearly links the abuses at Abu Ghraib and GITMO to the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld approvals of such techniques.
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