Journalist Bob Woodward wrote of the first confirmation by a Bush official of torture at Guantanamo Bay, on January 14, 2009. ” ‘We tortured [alleged 20th hijacker Mohammed al-] Qahtani,’ said Susan J. Crawford in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in February 2007. ‘His treatment met the legal definition of torture.’ ”
– Bob Woodward, “U.S. Military Tortured Guantanamo Detainee, Tribunal Overseer Says,” The Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 2009