The Torture 13: A Who's Who

Salon has a great article by Marcy Wheeler on the Bush administration's Torture 13. "They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it".

"Some of the 13 manipulated the federal bureaucracy and the legal process to 'preauthorize' torture in the days after 9/11. Others helped implement torture, and still others helped write the memos that provided the Bush administration with a legal fig leaf after torture had already begun."

Wheeler lays out who they were and what they did. SPOILER ALERT. The rogue's gallery are:

1. Dick Cheney
2. David Addington
3. Alberto Gonzales
4. James Mitchell
5. George Tenet
6. Condoleezza Rice
7. John Yoo
8. Jay Bybee
9. William "Jim" Haynes
10. Donald Rumsfeld
11. John Rizzo
12. Steven Bradbury
13. George W. Bush

Source: Salon