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...paid by the DIA to the I.N.C. as part of the Information Collection Program (ICP), an I.N.C.-run operation aimed at gathering intel on the former regime--came on May 8, according to someone familiar with the plan. It occurred at a principals' meeting attended by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA director George Tenet. On May 13, DIA officials who worked with the I.N.C. abandoned their office in Baghdad. The next day, the Iraqis who had been working there brought three trucks into the compound to take away files...
...week of congressional hearings, lawmakers struggled to trace the links in the chain of command. The White House, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and top brass in the Pentagon continued to insist that the abuses were confined to the sadistic impulses of the midnight shift at the prison. Senators and Representatives who crowded secure rooms on the Hill to watch nearly 1,800 unpublished pictures flash by, along with about half a dozen grainy videotapes, got a raw eyeful of just how perverse those particular soldiers had been. One of the videos seems to show a G.I. preparing to sodomize...
...have uncovered no paper trail, Senators were openly skeptical that Cambone and his bosses would have been in the dark about the procedures, since Miller reported directly to the Pentagon. Other Pentagon officials said Sanchez, at any rate, had never given anyone explicit permission to use such methods. And Rumsfeld told Senators that Pentagon lawyers had checked the rules thoroughly before judging Sanchez's list to be "consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. But according to Scott Horton of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, several senior military lawyers went to him last May and October...
...Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, who has no authority to issue military orders, encouraged Miller's trip. Some on Capitol Hill, where Cambone is unpopular, think he could take the blame if the scandal widens. But Cambone may be insulated. He has long been a key aide to Donald Rumsfeld, spearheading some of Rumsfeld's top causes--missile defense, modernizing the Pentagon and unifying intelligence operations--despite having relatively little intelligence experience...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein BUSH, BROOKS KRAFT; WITMER SISTERS, MICHAEL SEARS-POOL--GETTY IMAGES; MYERS, JASON REED--REUTERS; IRAQI WOMAN, KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH--ABACA PRESS; BREMER, ROBERTO SCHMIDT--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PRISONER, AP; SOLDIER, AKRAM SALEH--REUTERS; TAGUBA, ALEX WONG--GETTY IMAGES; HUMVEE, ALI ABBAS--EPA; BERG, AP; ENGLAND, AP; RUMSFELD, JIM MACMILLAN...