7/15/2003

In Iraq, “At the CIA’s Baghdad station, a young and relatively inexperienced station chief took over in July 2003. …The station chief specifically asked…headquarters for written guidelines on how to conduct detainee interrogations, but none were forthcoming. …[CIA Director George] Tenet’s deputies didn’t deliver the sought-after interrogation guidelines until after the Abu Ghraib [prison] scandal became public, in April 2004.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 244