New Reports Surface About Detainee Abuse (washingtonpost.com, 9/23/05):

'Despite my efforts, I have been unable to get clear, consistent answers from my leadership about what constitutes lawful and humane treatment of detainees,' Fishback wrote in a Sept. 16 letter to McCain, a member of the Armed Services Committee and a former prisoner of war in Vietnam. 'I am certain that this confusion contributed to a wide range of abuses including death threats, beatings, broken bones, murder, exposure to elements, extreme forced physical exertion, hostage-taking, stripping, sleep deprivation and degrading treatment.'

I hope I'm not the only one who thinks there should be no confusion about the appropriateness of torture and murder in any context, but things have been weird here in the US lately. Perhaps he's just using those examples as a method of dramatic understatement.