A war crime .... without a doubt

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The report found that Maj. Paul Burney, a United States Army psychiatrist assigned to interrogations in Guantánamo Bay that summer of 2002,
told Army investigators of another White House imperative: “A large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between Al Qaeda
and Iraq and we were not being successful.” As higher-ups got more “frustrated” at the inability to prove this connection, the major said, “there
was more and more pressure to resort to measures” that might produce that intelligence.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26rich.html