The BBC reports

A Pentagon report last year argued that President George W Bush was not bound by laws banning the use of torture, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The document also argued that torturers acting under presidential orders could not be prosecuted, the paper said.

The report was written by military and civilian lawyers for US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The report was commissioned in response to frustrations that Guantanamo prisoners were not spilling the beans in the cooperative way that the US had hoped.

Of course George and Donald had no idea that torture was taking place. The Green Man is sure that the report that Donald requested was completely hypothetical. Yeah right.

The draft argued that because nothing was more important than "obtaining intelligence vital to the protection of untold thousands of American citizens" normal strictures on torture might not apply

Seems to The Green Man that the new "dark ages" are dawning, it is the Spanish Inquisition all over again.