ugh.

Report: Rumsfeld OK'd Prison Rules

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved interrogation methods for Guantanamo Bay detainees including the use of "stress positions" for up to four hours, "fear of dogs" and "mild non-injurious" physical contact, a newspaper reports.

The Wall Street Journal reports Rumsfeld approved the tactics in December 2002. When military lawyers complained about the tactics being used, officials re-examined the techniques and implemented new rules in an April 2003 memo.

This whole thing is just so appalling; it's beginning to boggle the mind. it just gets worse and worse, and the plame thing and the abu ghraib thing are nowhere near resolved. it's shaping up to be a very hot summer, i'll tell ya that.