US Review: Leaders Did Not Order Abuse
Charles Johnson
Wed Mar 9, 2005 at 6:34 pm PST • Views: 247
Probe: Leaders Didn’t Order Prison Abuse.
WASHINGTON - A comprehensive U.S. military review of prisoner interrogation policies and techniques for the global war on terrorism concluded that no civilian or uniformed leaders directed or encouraged the abuse of prisoners, officials familiar with the review said Wednesday.
No Pentagon official or senior military commander “ever accepted that detainee abuse would be permissible,” an official quoted the review as stating among its central conclusions.
However, the review concluded that, in hindsight, the failure to provide commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan with specific and early guidance on interrogation techniques was a “missed opportunity.” It offered no judgment on whether this failure led to any of the abuses discovered in 2004.
The probe also found, in the cases of detainee operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the dissemination of approved interrogation policy to commanders in the field was generally poor. And in Iraq in particular it found that compliance with approved policy guidance was generally poor.
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But of course, that’s exactly what the Chimpy McBushburton regime would say, isn’t it?
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Frank says: