After General Antonio Taguba attempted to set the record straight about the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, The Senate Armed Services Committee debuted their own report in December 2008 that analyzed the scandal as well. In the report, their findings concluded that Donald Rumsfeld did indeed have a major role and bore an extreme amount of responsibility in the torture and treatment of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as other high ranking officials.
The report, issued by John McCain and Carl Levin, also stated that the methods of torture used were apart of the military training program Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE). This program is used to train American soldiers in case they are captured by an enemy that ignores the Geneva Conventions.
Because of the use of these tactics, it was concluded in the report that senior officials played a major role in the scandal, and their previous claims of innocence were now disregarded in light of the new information. Donald Rumsfeld and his team were now brought to light for their hand in the deplorable actions that took place in the Abu Ghraib prison.
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