July 24, 2004

Another Whitewash Report, this time from the US Army

The Washington Post says the US Army's own report into the torture and abuse of prisoners is "implausible and unacceptable. If the reputation and integrity of the Army are to be restored, some other authority will need to do better. "

It says the Army report falls back on the same argument "offered up by the Pentagon ever since the photographs from Abu Ghraib prison were published: that the crimes did not result from Army policy and were not the fault of senior commanders but were 'unauthorized actions taken by a few individuals.'

This conclusion is contradicted by the independent investigations and reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross, by an earlier Army investigation undertaken before the scandal became public, and by testimony given to Congress. Oddly, it doesn't even square with some of the findings buried in the inspector general's own report... "

Nobody is responsible, nobody is accountable, nobody never knew nothing.

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