New Yorker Says Rummy Knew

According to a story by New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the expansion of a secret program that encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners as a way to gain intelligence about the growing insurgency. The Pentagon is adamantly denying this story: spokesman Lawrence Di Rita issued a statement calling the claims "outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture."

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