>"Rumsfeld was staunchly backed by the Vice President of the United States, Richard Cheney. Moreover, the fact that among the detainees was a 13 year-old boy and a man over 90, did not seem to faze either man."

There is something about this hardheadness, assuredness and bellicosity that makes this shameful. Perhaps we should use the same tactics within the previous administration to find out just WHO they were?? Perhaps in secret? (Why, everybody's doing it!)

And this:
>"All that was necessary was to extract everything possible from them, assemble it all in a computer program, look for cross-connections and serendipitous incidentals... to have sufficient information about a village, a region, or a group of individuals, that dots could be connected and terrorists or their plots could be identified."

I can see how this makes sense, but it puts the American intelligence gathering down to a lynch mob.