TECHNIQUES AT GUANTANAMO, AFGHANISTAN AND ABU GHRAIB ENVELOPE CONTAINED POWDER

Report: Rumsfeld OK’d abuse Sebelius

BY ROY GUTMAN
AND JONATHAN S. LANDAY
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Top officials

— including former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, the
former chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff — were responsible
for the use of abusive interrogation
techniques on
detainees at
Guantanamo Bay,
in Afghanistan
and at the Abu
Services Committee report bluntly
refuted the Bush administration’s
repeated claims that the abuses,
which helped fuel the Iraq insur-
gency and damaged America’s rep-
techniques, redefined the law to
create the appearance of their
legality, and authorized their use
against detainees,” said the
report’s 19-page unclassified exec-
receives
Ghraib prison in
Iraq, a bipartisan
Senate report
concluded
Rumsfeld
utation around the world, were the
work of a few low-level “bad
apples.”
“Senior officials in the United
utive summary. “Those efforts
damaged our ability to collect
accurate intelligence that could
save lives, strengthened the hand
suspect
letter
Thursday. States government solicited infor-
The long-awaited Senate Armed mation on how to use aggressive Please see RUMSFELD, Page 4A

Surviving pit bulls’

Associated Press

TOPEKA — Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ office

received a suspicious letter containing
powder Thursday, joining a growing list of
governors who have received similar
envelopes this week.
Part of her Statehouse

future uncertain
office was shut down for
two hours while Capitol
Police and local firefighters
investigated. Sebelius
spokeswoman Nicole
Corcoran said the FBI and
U.S. Postal Service have

People across nation send aid for 102 abused dogs taken over the investiga-
tion.
The Kansas Highway
Sebelius

Patrol, which oversees the Capitol Police,

said preliminary tests showed the material

KANSAS was non-hazardous. The Department of

Health and Environment will do further tests,
the patrol said.
.COM
„ Watch a
In other states, the powder was flour,
cornstarch or other harmless food substance.
Sebelius remained in her private office
video of the throughout the incident. It wasn’t sealed
pit bulls and off, so she could enter and leave through a
interviews with side door. But law enforcement officials
Kay County
sheriff’s Please see LETTER, Page 12A
officials
„ View a
gallery of pit WHAT WE’RE SEARCHING FOR
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discussion at
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lists raise
WichitaPaws.
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Forums, click
on “What do
you think
should be
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Photos by Bo Rader/The Wichita Eagle
TOP: One of the 106 pit bulls found on a farm west of Newkirk, Okla. ABOVE: One pit bull patrols the top of some cages on the farm.
questions
Kay County Undersheriff Steve Kelly says he doesn’t know how the dog gets up there, but it seems to be happy there. BY JIM DWYER
New York Times News Service
BY BECCY TANNER are still here, in wire pens and
The Wichita Eagle plastic barrels. Google has released its map of the national
One dog was dead and anoth- brain and appetites for 2008, and it turns out

N
EWKIRK, Okla. —
Some pit bulls shiver in
the cold, skin and fur
hanging from their
bones.
Some wag their tails
as strangers approach.
Some try to hide.
Still others growl and lunge at
other dogs.
Almost all have heavy chains
around their necks.
More than a week after
hunters stumbled across 106
emaciated and dying pit bulls at
this remote farmhouse, the dogs
HOW TO HELP THE PIT BULLS, PAGE 12A
er dying when authorities that many, many people across America have
arrived. Two have since been been asking the Internet “what is love?” and
euthanized because they were “how to kiss.”
in such poor shape. One had On the surface, these kinds of lists are
been in a fight and her head supposed to reveal what Google calls the zeit-
was covered with wounds. geist of 2008, though it’s not much of a sur-
The 102 surviving dogs now prise that people were interested in Sarah Palin
have food, water, shelter and and Barack Obama. But they also provide hints
straw — and an outpouring of of the level of personal details that people are
support from across the nation. now turning over to search engines and related
But their future is uncertain. businesses without much awareness.
“What’s going to happen to The lists, said Lt. Col. Greg Conti, a profes-
these animals is still pretty sor of computer science at West Point, “are
vague,” said Ruth Steinberger, just major tsunami-type activities, big waves
in the online searches.”
Please see PIT BULLS, Page 12A Conti, the author of “Googling Security:
How Much Does Google Know About You?”
Jail trusties from a Kay County, Okla., detention facility help feed (Addison-Wesley, 2008), contends that
and water the dogs found on a farm in Kay County.
Please see GOOGLE, Page 4A

THE FUNCHEONS PRAY WITH BUSH

Gloria has questions for the president

BY ROY WENZL
The Wichita Eagle
You don’t seem bitter, the president
of the United States had just told the
Funcheon family. Are you?
Karen thought this was an odd
question. Of course they were bitter.
They had lost their son Alex six
weeks before. Karen had wanted to
die every day since.
“No,” Bob said.
You . . . well, Bush said, his voice
trailing off.
PART SIX OF SEVEN
He thought for a moment.
I’m supposed to be the encourager
here, he said.
The Funcheons looked puzzled.
Bush tried to explain:
Wellæ.æ.æ. the word around the
White House is that I’m the
Encourager in Chief, among other
things. Word is that I’m the
Commander in Chief, the Decider in
Chiefæ.æ.æ. the Encourager in Chief.
Apparently this was a White House
joke. Bush smiled.
“Well, we are here to encourage
you,” Bob said. “To make it worth-
while. To make the war worthwhile.”
Karen unfolded a paper she’d held
in her hand.
“I guess it’s my turn.
“Just like your mother and father
raised you and your brothers to be
God-fearing and to be leaders, we Courtesy of the White House
raised our children to be God-fearing From left, Gloria Funcheon, President Bush, Karen
Funcheon and Bob Funcheon pose for a photo after
Please see ALEX, Page 8A the family’s visit with the president.

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