1) There was an "attempt cover up the abuses." That's the NYT paraphrasing an agent's comments in the FBI memo. The Times mentions it in passing and doesn't return.
2) "June 24" : That's the date an agent sent the chief of the FBI a memo describing "strangulation, beatings, placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees' ear openings and unauthorized interrogations." That's two months after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke.
This Newsweek piece seems to have some relevance again, eh?