Symour Hersh, mannen som startet Abu Ghraib-skandalen med en serie artikler i The New Yorker, har skrevet bok om saken.

“Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib” (HarperCollins), slippes mandag. Her skriver Hersh at både sivile og militære toppledere ble advart om overgrep mot fanger.

Hvis det er nye beviser kan det få negative følger for Bush.

Mr. Hersh’s thesis is that “the roots of the Abu Ghraib scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists” who have been charged so far, “but in the reliance of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld on secret operations and the use of coercion – and eye-for-eye retribution – in fighting terrorism.”

In particular, Mr. Hersh has reported that a secret program to capture and interrogate terrorists led to the abuse of prisoners.