Inside the Wire

The New York Times reports that, according to a former U.S. Army interpreter, "a former commander of the Guantánamo Bay prison exaggerated the value of information gleaned from detainees and knew that aggressive intelligence teams were staging friendly interrogations for visiting lawmakers and senior military officers."

The revelations come in the new book "Inside the Wire" by Time's Viveca Novak. There are other sordid details about how the Bush administration has systematically violated the Geneva Conventions and thus mbarrassed the United States on the world stage. Check out the full article - and the new book.