According to the many investigations that have been 
    conducted on Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, there is no 
    evidence that "Haynes was in the White House in November 
    2002" making decisions about interrogation policy. Haynes 
    is the general counsel of the Defense Department, not 
    the "general counsel for president Bush," as Sullivan 
    seems to think. If Sullivan cannot even get such basic and
    obvious facts right, he is likely to be wrong about most 
    everything else he says. One clear example to show the 
    mistakes of Sullivan and the left's torture narrative is 
    the discussion of waterboarding. Haynes's decisions were 
    the exact opposite of Sullivan's claim. It was uniformed 
    military in Guantanamo Bay that requested enhanced 
    interrogation methods to use against a single al Qaeda 
    operative who was believed to have actionable 
    intelligence. His name was Mohamed al Kahtani. He was 
    captured fleeing Tora Bora in December 2001. He had been 
    turned away when he tried to enter the United States at 
    Orlando airport in August 2001; waiting in the airport at 
    that same date and time was Mohammed Atta, the ringleader
    of the 9/11 attacks. Haynes did not approve waterboarding;
    in fact, he and other Defense Department advisors rejected
    it. When the Defense Department later assembled a broader 
    working group to study interrogation standards, Haynes 
    again as a matter of policy recommended against adoption 
    of many more aggressive interrogation methods, including 
    waterboarding.