Maybe nobody in the Bush administration actually reads their reports, or maybe Donald Rumsfeld is so used to talking out his arse that facts never play into his "get it off me" responses. But in the U.S. Defense Secretary's first public comments on two reports concerning the torture of Iraqi prisoners, he completely ignored findings that the torture was part of the interrogation process.

"I have not seen anything thus far that says that the people abused were abused in the process of interrogating them or for interrogation purposes," Rumsfeld told a Phoenix, Arizona, radio show. The reports - one commissioned by Donald himself - both asserted the contrary. Rumsfeld repeated his claim later that same day at a news conference. After being handed a note by one of his aides, Rumsfeld commented that a U.S. Army report found "two or three" instances of abuse for interrogation purposes. In fact, the Army inquiry found that 13 of 44 occasions of torture were interrogation related.

» Scott Saxon