Saturday, May 15, 2004
Advice Rejected
Just when you thought it wasn't going to get worse....the Abu Ghraib story doesn't let you down....
ABC News is reporting that JAG lawyers,"had been urging Pentagon officials to ensure protection for prisoners for two years before the abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light"
"Political appointees" at the Pentagon reportedly ignored the warnings.
And in related news, Seymour Hersch has just published the third of his installments on the prison torture scandal in this week's New Yorker Magazine. Hersch reveals that Rumsfeld and the Pentagon put together a highly secret group of individuals who were to hunt down Al Qaida members and pump them for information. This same group was expanded to do the same to Iraqi prisoners. Elements of interrogation for this group included physical coercion and sexual humiliation.
Are we still planning on only blaming the "six or seven" prison guards who conducted the torture?
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ABC News is reporting that JAG lawyers,"had been urging Pentagon officials to ensure protection for prisoners for two years before the abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison came to light"
"Political appointees" at the Pentagon reportedly ignored the warnings.
And in related news, Seymour Hersch has just published the third of his installments on the prison torture scandal in this week's New Yorker Magazine. Hersch reveals that Rumsfeld and the Pentagon put together a highly secret group of individuals who were to hunt down Al Qaida members and pump them for information. This same group was expanded to do the same to Iraqi prisoners. Elements of interrogation for this group included physical coercion and sexual humiliation.
Are we still planning on only blaming the "six or seven" prison guards who conducted the torture?
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