“On July 9, 2004, the FBI’s Office of Inspections distributed an e-mail asking its agents who were stationed at Guantanamo whether they had witnessed, ‘Aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview techniques…which were not consistent with FBI interview policy/guidelines.’ More than two-dozen agents responded that they observed numerous instances of detainee abuse. One FBI agent wrote that, despite [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld’s public statements to the contrary, the interrogation methods ‘were approved at high levels w/in DoD [Department of Defense].’ In addition to Rumsfeld, the FBI e-mails said [Deputy Secretary of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz, one Bush administration official who has largely escaped scrutiny in the torture debate, approved the methods at Guantanamo.”
– Jason Leopold, “Gonzales Memo Advised Bush How to Avoid War Crimes Charges,” PubRecord.org, June 13, 2009