Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “In a separate Department of Defense order to the combatant commanders on January 19, 2002, I echoed the President’s [Bush’s] order and directed all personnel to ‘treat [al-Qaida and Taliban detainees] humanely’ and ‘in a manner consistent with the principles of the Geneva Conventions.’ ”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 558