Apparently Condoleeza and Cheney made the decision to use waterboarding on prisoners.

Do you people still run thugs out of town?Condoleeza and Cheney knew.

Apart from the question of the ethics or efficacy of torture, these people pretended to be shocked, shocked when news of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib came out.

Even if you were a torture enthusiast, a die-hard Jack Bauer fan, wouldn't you be disugusted that Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and so on had allowed soldiers to be jailed for carrying out the kinds of action these politicians had already calmly reviewed and approved?

'...At times, CIA officers would demonstrate some of the tactics, or at least detail how they worked, to make sure the small group of "principals" fully understood what the al-Qaida detainees would undergo. The principals eventually authorized physical abuse such as slaps and pushes, sleep deprivation, or waterboarding...'
Cheney, Others OK'd Harsh Interrogations

and here I thought this was about water sports.

It would seem that certain miltary people are starting to get worried. Now they are blaming the White House for the torture.Army blames the White House

Military officers take an oath to uphold the US Constitution. The US Constitution clearly states that the US is bound by treaties it has entered into. If someone promised, swore, to follow certain rules, and then doesn't, who else is to blame but the person who did not keep his oath? Meyers was chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, which certainly implies that he was in the military long enough to have read the Constitution a few times. It's not a long document, and it isn't even in small print, so however misled he was or feels he was does not negate the fact that he failed to keep his oath. I hope that these guys who tortured get prosecuted; sooner or later, someone will roll over on some big names.

Didn't we prosecute some guys several years ago who claimed that they "were just following orders"? How did that plea work out for them?