From Al-Jazeera:
The White House has denied assertions by a former leading military investigator of the Abu Ghraib scandal that the president and leading military officials knew about the abuse at the prison in Iraq before it became public.
A spokesman said George Bush first learnt about the abuse from media reports.
“The president said over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on television,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said in Crawford, Texas, where Bush is spending the weekend at his ranch.
Stanzel was responding to questions about a New Yorker magazine report quoting retired Major-General Antonio Taguba, as saying “the president had to be aware” of the abuse of prisoners by US military guards.
