From the International Herald Tribune: Bush didn't approve of torture.
In a February 2002 directive that set new rules for handling prisoners captured in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush broadly cited the need for "new thinking in the law of war," and ordered that all people detained as part of the fight against terrorism be treated humanely even if they were deemed by the United States not to be protected by the Geneva conventions, the White House has disclosed.
But Rummy did?
By late 2002, the documents showed, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was fleshing out the policy under intense pressure to squeeze more information from people seized in Afghanistan. He briefly approved techniques including the use of dogs, and by April 2003 he had approved the use under some conditions of interrogation techniques including changes in diet, reversing sleep cycles from night to day, and isolation.
A list of the memos, helpfully compiled and posted by the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62516-2004Jun22.html
No, I don't know what this all means yet.
