Martini Republic » Trail of prisoner abuse goes “directly back to Cheney’s office”: "Froomkin, in today’s White House briefing, relates details of another recent Wilkerson interview. I can’t say it is surprising, in light of Cheney’s continued initiatives to exempt US personnel from anti-torture legislation and the moral bankruptcy displayed by this administration, but it certainly is disturbing:

Another shocking accusation by former administration insider Lawrence Wilkerson appears to be going under the media radar today.

On NPR yesterday, the former chief of staff to the secretary of state said that he had uncovered a ‘visible audit trail’ tracing the practice of prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers directly back to Vice President Cheney’s office."

(Via Martini Republic.)