Abu Ghraib: The Rest of The Story-by Joseph L. Galloway

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Abu Ghraib: The Rest of The Story
by Joseph L. Galloway

Protect Rumsfeld, Bush

Both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld went on record declaring that the first they knew of the Abu Ghraib scandal was when they saw the less-offensive photographs in the media. If you believe that, I’ve got some oceanfront property in Arizona that I’d like to sell you.

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As the investigations unfolded, it was clear that the primary motivation of most of them was to protect Rumsfeld and the president from any blame or responsibility for what had transpired at Abu Ghraib. Blame, unlike cream, settles as close to the bottom of any bureaucracy as can be arranged.

They said that even though it was obvious that Bush and his White House counsel Alberto Gonzales had done everything they could to unleash military and CIA interrogators from the constraints of the Geneva Convention and common human decency.

There are those who know that Rumsfeld himself ordered Maj. Gen. Geoff Miller, who ran things at the detention center at Guantánamo, Cuba, to take a ”tiger team” of specialists in rough interrogation techniques to Abu Ghraib in the summer of 2003 and share their knowledge.

more at:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/24/2062/