Even the NY Times agrees ABU GHRAIB is a Whitewash

[maverick hombre]

Here is another article.

I have alreay written my senators here in Ohio. Again, I ask you all, AS DEMOCRATS, to write your senators whether they are Democrats or Republicans, asking them to support Chairman Warner, the other "Repugs" who are bucking, AND the Democrats who are conducting the Abu Ghraib inquiry.

Here's the NY Times Editorial:

No Accountability on Abu Ghraib
by Editorial Board, New York Times
September 10th, 2004

After months of Senate hearings and eight Pentagon investigations, it is obvious that the administration does not intend to hold any high-ranking official accountable for the nightmare at Abu Ghraib. It was pretty clear yesterday that Senator John Warner's well-intentioned hearings of the Armed Services Committee are not going to do it either.

James Schlesinger, who was picked by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to head a civilian investigation of Abu Ghraib and seems determined to repay the favor, gave unhelpful testimony that included an incredible statement that there was no policy "that encourages abuse." He told that to the same senators who had heard earlier from a panel of generals that the Central Intelligence Agency was still refusing to account for its practice of hiding dozens of prisoners from the Red Cross. Mr. Rumsfeld personally approved that violation of the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties on at least one occasion.

At the hearing, Mr. Warner asked Mr. Schlesinger and Harold Brown, another former secretary of defense, to be specific about their report's talk of "institutional and personal responsibility at higher levels." Neither man had any intention of doing that.

Senator John McCain, who was a prisoner of war in the Vietnam era, asked Mr. Schlesinger with evident exasperation: "Isn't there some accountability? Isn't there some responsibility?" Mr. Schlesinger managed to come up with the colonel who read the first Red Cross report on the abuse of prisoners in late 2003 and decided that it was not credible. As for high-ranking officers and civilians, he intoned, "careers will be negatively affected."

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HEY DU...This is a BIG and MEATY issue that can really throw GW's pandering into the limelight. This is criminal in my opinion and has no place at Capitol Hill. Its truth, and "Repugs" are taking a stand too. Write!

[Eloriel]

1. Need a link, please

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[maverick hombre]

2. Link

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/opinion/10fri1.html?ex=1252555200&en=288f187f8fc0e965&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

[Eloriel]

3. Thanks

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[proud patriot]

4. maveric hombre ...Please read

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