The full impact of this little tidbit went over my head when it happened:
John Lindh's 2002 plea agreement forbids him from discussing the conditions under which he was held following his capture. A Navy admiral told the intelligence officer interrogating Lindh in late 2001 that "the secretary of defense's counsel has authorized him to 'take the gloves off' and ask whatever he wanted." So the officer propped up Lindh naked and tied to a stretcher in sessions that went on for days, while his responses were cabled to Washington hourly.
Does any intelligent person persist in a belief that Abu Ghraib was the frolic of some inbred prison guards, acting against orders, and the Yoo memo was just academic curiosity?
