General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war crimes


By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.

The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.

"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."


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On the matter of the actual abuse itself, this bit from another article is interesting:


This to me is the scary part. While we're all focused on GITMO, the fact is, the practices of abuse may actually be even worse in other places.

There's a lot of light on GITMO right now. But there is no lght whatsoever on these floating black sites, for instance.

God only knows what the hell's going on there....

Deke, I could probably write 15 paragraphs on this deal right now all based on public domain information. It may be helpful to review Taguba's numerous testimonies given to Congressional Oversight. In many minds there are numerous violations of domestic and international law having occured through GITMO and the gitmozation of Abu Gharib. Senator Biden is very familiar with the Bybee memo too which outlines short term and long term effects of torture. I guess most alarming to me was the high incidence of fatality among those detained by coalition forces and a lack of forensic discovery into the exact nature of those deaths. I don't think Oversight went far enough banning torture, an old school modality. But, the Current President probably would attach a signing statement nulifying any Legislative corrections. The opposite side is a zombie mentality when parties follow orders blindly. It's true, people become what they hate the most.