The Roots of Torture: The road to Abu Ghraib began after 9/11, when Washington wrote new rules to fight a new kind of war. A NEWSWEEK investigation.

The Newsweek story backs up Seymour Hersh's column in the New Yorker about who signed off on interrogation procedures in Iraq.

The Bush Administration probably hoped last week's trip to Iraq by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would throw water on the fire, but with mounting evidence that Rumsfeld himself signed off on this strategy, it's not going away anytime soon.