Article: NEWSWEEK: Detention, Interrogation That Opened Door to Methods Used at Abu Ghraib; Bush Had Decided That Geneva Conventions Did Not Apply to Taliban, Al Qaeda By Jan. 2002, According to Memo.

NEW YORK, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- While it is unlikely that President George W. Bush or senior officials ever knew of the specific techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, a Newsweek investigation shows that, as a means of preempting a repeat of 9/11, Bush, along with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, signed off on a secret system of detention and interrogation that opened the door to such methods, report National Security Correspondent John Barry, Senior Editor Michael Hirsh and Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff in the May 24 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday May 17). And while there is no telling where the scandal will ...

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