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Rumsfeld: First, Senator Kennedy, your statement that other agencies of gov. were concerned about detainees is simply not correct.

Kennedy: This wasn't brought to your attention by the State Dept. So it was brought to you. When did you know it? It's been published that you did know about it.

Rumsfeld: It's not correct to say that nothing was done. It's not accurate. We've had numerous meetings about detainees. ALl in all there are approx. 40,000 detainees who were captured. There are over 30,000 who were already released.

The ICRC came in and said the ywere concerned about the ABu Gareb prison, that's correct. The prison report found a number of those things were already underway in terms of corrections. Additional corrections were made.

The military command took a number of steps.

When were we knowledgeable? Sarg. Garby told his supervisor he had information about abuses on the 14th of Jan. By the next day an investigation had been started and went out and told THE WORLD that investigations had begun into the abuses.