Bush Awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Top Torturer:

Retired Gen. Myers, formerly the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly knew all along about the practice of torture within the military and approved of it in order to please former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who was in a race with the CIA to extract information by any means possible.

Following retirement, Gen. Myers immediately found lucrative employment within the defense industry, being elected to the boards of two major contractors: United Technologies and Northrop Grumman. (Read the Salon.com story here.)