Sy Hersh's New Yorker piece this week says the Defense Department and CIA - with backing of top officials including Donald Rumsfeld - approved a plan to systematically torture and abuse Iraqi prisoners.

The Pentagon said the story wasn't true, but some, including Josh Marshall, said it sounded like a non-denial denial.

CIA spokesman Bill Harlow has just issued a denial-denial:

The New Yorker story is fundamentally wrong. There was no DoD/CIA program to abuse and humiliate Iraqi prisoners. Despite what is alleged in the article, I am aware of no CIA official who would have--or possibly could have--confirmed the details of The New Yorker's inaccurate account.