General (Miller) contradicted his sworn testimony on Pentagon, Abu Ghraib

[UpInArms]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/12135066.htm

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - An Army general who has been criticized for his role in the treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has contradicted his sworn congressional testimony about contacts with senior Pentagon officials.

Gen. Geoffrey Miller told the Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2004 that he had only filed a report on a recent visit to Abu Ghraib, and did not talk to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or his top aides about the fact-finding trip.

But in a recorded statement to attorneys three months later, Miller said he gave two of Rumsfeld's most senior aides - then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary for Intelligence Steve Cambone - a briefing on his visit and his subsequent recommendations.

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Miller's statement about the meeting, if true, suggests that officials at the very top of the Pentagon may have been more involved in monitoring activities at the prison than previously disclosed. Abu Ghraib was later at the center of a scandal surrounding prisoner abuse, which has led to punishments for soldiers.

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Cambone has asserted that he was not briefed by Miller after the general returned from Abu Ghraib. During his own appearance on May 11, 2004, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Cambone said he and Miller did not speak about Abu Ghraib after Miller's return from the September 2003 fact-finding mission.

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Hmmmm....

More perjury before the Congress?

[jsamuel]

1. well, who would have guessed that the Bush Admin was involved in this?

me, but not really guessing...

corruption everywhere

[IChing]

2. You mean our Military Leaders are lying? but Just to Congress? Who else?

have they lied to?

I do know that you start lying it gets easier to tell the troops a lie too,.

[ConcernedCanuk]

7. I hope that was sarcasm - cuz the rest of the world knows

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The US military lies to everybody

including themselves to the point they have no idea what the truth is anymore -

right up to The USSA's diktator Boosh -

there is no recognizable reality in the White House

Maybe it's time for us dumm Canuks to burn it down again - and then ask China/Russia to KEEP it down?

somehow . .

came push to shove - the East/Europe would be on Canada's side - - - and we'd have a REAL coalition of the willing 'against the US of A . .

Sad, but I think that is close to the truth -

IMAGINE -

what would happen to the US if the world believed they had no nukes

not a purty picture methinks . .

[BenTrem]

3. Who broke this story?

Here's the thing: I read http://www.sanluisobispo.com and then go to news.google to snoop around, right?
Ok, I find another source. One other source. A single other source. 1 ... duluthsuperior.com
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/politics/12135066.htm

I click on the story link and guess what! Exactly the same "What is your real age?" ad ...

Ok, so it's the story by STEPHEN J. HEDGES of the Chicago Trib ... I news.google ... 1 story, 12 hours ago: Military report cites humiliation of U.S. prisoners ...

WTF? Good enough for Duluth and Sanluis Obispo, but not Chicago?!

[WhiteTara]

8. welcome to DU BenTrem

:hi:

[dArKeR]

4. There's only one place for you Mr. Miller and you know it!

[AndyTiedye]

5. To the Hague With Them

[0007]

6. Tis now common knowledge that not only are our Generals are

incompetent and not too bright, but they are also goddamn liars of the worse sort.