For Shame

A US inquiry has censured Australian military lawyer George O'Kane for failing to respond adequately to Red Cross complaints of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib. O'Kane was the principal author of a letter which virtually denied abuse was happening and said some prisoners were not covered by the Geneva Concention.

Australian PM John Howard and Defence Minister Robert Hill previously banned O'Kane from testifying in public before the Australian Senate. The Aussie media obediently dropped the story. We've all moved on from Abu Ghraib, haven't we?