2000 Veterans call for Indie Investigation of US practices -

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For Immediate Release:
July 25, 2005
Contacts:
Charles Sheehan-Miles, 202.558.4553 or [e-mail]

Pentagon Defies Order to Release Photos;
2,000 Veterans Call for Independent Investigation

Washington - Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), a nonpartisan veterans' organization with 12,000 members, called for a commission to investigate torture allegations today, in response to the Pentagon refusal to release photos and videos from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.

In an open letter, signed by more than 2,000 veterans and supporters (including 5 flag-rank officers and more than 200 commissioned officers), the veterans urged Congress and the President to "commit -- immediately and publicly -- to support the creation of an independent commission to investigate and report on the detention and interrogation practices of U.S. military and intelligence agencies deployed in the war on terror."

Charles Sheehan-Miles, a 1991 Gulf War veteran and the group's executive director, said, "Once again the administration is fighting to prevent any possible public accountability for its policies, instead choosing to blame it all on the troops. To court-martial privates while high ranking officials get promoted is damaging to the very principle of command responsibility and undermines the U.S. military."

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=4198

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