How the military treated some inmates at Abu Ghraib like 'ghosts'

[LittleApple81]

This comes from LBN post by UpInArms:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x618696

which refers to this article:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/040621/usnews/21abughraib.htm

In the article (UpInArms has a bigger quote) there is a paragraph about Barbara fast:
Karpinski says Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, who is Sanchez's top intelligence officer, was a major obstacle to releasing detainees. Fast, she says, served with her and a third officer on a detainee release board and vetoed recommendations to release inmates from the overcrowded facility, even after determining that they were of no intelligence value. "She did not want to release the next Osama bin Laden," Karpinski says. "She had a certain kind of paranoia." Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the top military spokesman in Iraq, denies that Fast had veto authority and says most board decisions were unanimous.
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But what I am interested in (and I hope GD has night-owls who can help me) is information on Barbara Fast. Her name has appeared several times but the army has tried to hide her and any evidence of her involvement. She is the director of the school where they TRAIN THE PRIVATE CONTRACTOR INTERROGATORS (Fort Huachuca). This link has short info on her:
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/006412.html

Here is the link to the Fort Huachuca site.
http://usaic.hua.army.mil /

But One of the weirdest things I found is this NAZI sounding statement in their recreation activities page:
This site is provided as a public service by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command . (Note: maybe this is normal army talk and I am becoming super-paranoiac but the Doctrine thingy seems weird to me).
http://www.mwrhuachuca.com /
Question: is it normal for all US army facilities to offer these many amenities?????

Anyhow, any of you have info on this woman? It looks to me that she is kind of the "crux" of the matter.

[Solly Mack]

1. Army post are self-contained communities/towns

you will find many of the same amenities you can find in civilian cities

The army also has it's own "resorts" around the country....albeit few.... Their own hotel at Disney World. ...and other such things.

[LittleApple81]

2. Thanks. I did not know that. n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. Welcome! & here's a link with a bit of a bio on Fast

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/28/Worldandnation/Military_star_sideste.shtml

[LittleApple81]

4. Wow... what a resume. But if it is true she was a "hands-on" type

of officer, there is no way she DIDN'T KNOW or may even have ordered the torture.
and these few lines sound more incriminating to me than anything else:

At the same time, it was announced that Fast would return to Fort Huachuca this summer in the plum post of commanding general.

"She's done outstanding things," said Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defense secretary, "and I expect more in the future."

[Solly Mack]

5. Here's a link prior to her promotion announcement by Rumsfeld

I'm working backward here it seems.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/b05132003_bt320-03.html


"Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced today that the president has made the following nominations:

Army Brig. Gen. Barbara G. Fast has been nominated for promotion to the rank of major general. Fast is currently serving as director of intelligence, J-2, U.S. European Command, Germany."

I agree she had to know. The way the command structure is set up within the army makes it almost impossible she didn't know.

I'll check Germany posts for more on Fast.

[LittleApple81]

6. Thanks Solly. I really appreciate it. I suspected this from day

one, but her name vanished from the news on abuse for a long period of time.

[Solly Mack]

7. here's an article written by Fast while still a Col (P)

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/army/tradoc/usaic/mipb/1997-4/colfast.htm

Just for insights into her thinking...