Email Reveals Bush Personally Authorized Detainee Abuse

Jason Leopold at The Public Record writes about an email that turned up in the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealing that, contrary to Bush administration claims in the past, an executive order signed by President Bush specifically authorized hooding, sleep deprivation, the use of attack dogs, loud music and other “aggressive” techniques to try to get Al Qaeda suspects to talk.

Read the email here (PDF).