Testimony before a U.S. Senate committee:
"...cruelties have been inflicted...people have been shot when they ought not to have been... and soldiers had employed water torture to extract information from insurgents.

Some official in 2010? Nope. William Howard Taft, on return from his stint as Governor General of the Philippines in 1902.

Read this book:
THE BULLY PULPIT
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
Illustrated. 910 pages. Simon & Schuster. $40.