Top Abu Ghraib Officials To Be Promoted!!!

So this is the payback for keeping silent on the links to Rumsfeld et al. Unbelievable...

Top Pentagon and Defence officials are talking up the career prospects of Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq during the Abu Ghraib scandal, and Barbara Fast, his chief military intelligence officer.

Defence Department insiders in Washington said that the Pentagon is angling to promote Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez, who ran prisons in Iraq at the time of the abuses in Abu Ghraib jail.

Senior Pentagon officials, including the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, have told colleagues they are determined to pin a fourth star on General Sanchez.

And let's not forget Ms. Fast, who has been implicated by James R. Schlesinger's independent panel:

The Army's intelligence chief said yesterday that he has "great confidence" in the ability of Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, the highest-ranking intelligence officer tied to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, to lead the Army's intelligence school.

"In my opinion, she's a great officer and we ought to put her in command," Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said in a breakfast interview with defense writers...

Fast was responsible for assessing threats in Iraq. She also supervised two Army intelligence officers implicated in the scandal -- Col. Thomas M. Pappas and Lt. Col. Steve Jordan, both with the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which operated the Abu Ghraib prison.

You would think they might have the decency to at least wait till the elections are over before airing such appalling nonsense. But maybe Rumsfeld & Co are worried about more whistle-blowing at this sensitive stage of the election, and maybe this is code for "Keep quiet and we'll make sure you get rewarded later."