Sunday, June 17, 2007

The General's Report

MUST READ

By Seymour M. Hersh
The New Yorker
"How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties."

The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh reports that a general who investigated US troops sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison told Pentagon officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, about the incidents before the scandal became public, but Rumsfeld, and other officials, who told Congress they were unaware about the extent of the abuse, "are lying to protect themselves."
Photo: Antonio Taguba knew his report would make him unpopular: "If I lie, I lose. And, if I tell the truth, I lose." (Photo Credit: Mary Ellen Mark / The New Yorker)

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