Although most of what is included in this story was known or considered likely, this report is the first congress report and it is from the chair and top Republican.

This article discusses a report by the leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee which should remove all doubt that prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanimo originated with officially promulgated Bush administration policies, not with "a few bad apples" as administration spokespersons have previously insisted. This report gains considerable credibility because it was a bipartisan effort to track the origins of the abuse--top Republican, John McCain, helped author the report.

This story reads like a summary of a press release or report, with a little extra legwork by the reporter to contact those involved and show some historical context. But the majority of the article comes from the report, not from independent reporting.

An informative article but I think the public came to those conclusions years ago.

Given the Senate Armed Services Committee membership (read: bi-partisan), it's a vital story. It was buried on A10 in the West Coast edition of NYT. That is a poor editorial decision, given the weight of its implications. Sequential multi-nation financial meltdowns, multiple warfronts and global degradation aside, I wish this was A1, above the fold and highlighted in the influential Sunday NYT magazine. Tip of the iceberg stuff.