New Head of Prisons Defends Advice - Guards Were to Be 'Actively Engaged'

[UpInArms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11163-2004May8.html

BAGHDAD, May 8 -- The new U.S. commander in charge of the military's prisons in Iraq on Saturday defended a recommendation he made last summer that prison guards become "actively engaged" in helping to gather intelligence from detainees at the Abu Ghraib detention center.

The commander, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, said that military police and military intelligence units at Abu Ghraib should be better integrated, with MPs helping to prepare prisoners for questioning. At that time, Miller was commander of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and military commanders in Iraq had sought his expertise on improving interrogations here.

Several months after Miller made his recommendation, about 20 prisoners were physically and sexually abused at Abu Ghraib. The military has launched six investigations into the abuse, filed criminal charges against seven soldiers and moved to issue administrative sanctions against seven officers and sergeants.

In early March, a wide-ranging internal Army investigation questioned Miller's recommendation that military police guards play a greater role in the intelligence- gathering effort. The investigation was completed March 3. One of its major conclusions was that military police were directed to "set the conditions" for interrogations by military intelligence operatives.

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[movonne]

1. Oh, oh.

[wickerwoman]

2. I didn't realize he was the former commander at Gitmo.

Maybe we'll start getting some straight answers there as part of the investigation.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Is this what we've become ?

Has a Reagan era fear of communism pushed us so far to the right that we are now the polar opposite ?
How long before U.S sanctioned death camps are uncovered ? Will we uncover gas showerheads ?
I had to get away from the computer and CNN today ...Took a long drive into western PA to do some thinking. I don't know if anyone here has mentioned this Canadian documentary about our prison camps in Afganistan. It's a big 50meg mov. file. It made me get up and leave.....I miss my country.
http://marc.perkel.com/images/AfghanPOWsKilled.mov

[JohnnyRingo]

4. Rumsfiend is resigning...

on Saturday night Live !
opening skit.

[saigon68]

5. Geoffrey D. Miller = neocon lap dog

Rumor has it he gets aroused
by the screams of the tortured men.

[nodictators]

7. Miller and Negroponte: Bush's final solution for Iraq

What a team! Miller ran the Inquisition at Gitmo and Negroponte has all that experience coordinating with death squad leaders when he was US ambassador to Hondurus during the Iran-Contra years.

Sports fans will note that Honduras pulled out of the "Coalition" shortly after Negroponte was named as US ambassador to the "New Iraq."

Invasion -- Occupation -- Subjugation

[NMDemDist2]

6. NO NO !! if he resigns before Memorial Day weekend

i owe zombywoof lunch!!

[UpInArms]

8. related article: U.S. general rejects blame for abuses

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/09/MNGBV6IMME1.DTL

Baghdad -- The U.S. general who heads Abu Ghraib prison defended his strategy to have prison guards help prepare detainees for interrogation, a recommendation that he made just before the worst of American abuses of prisoners occurred.

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He said the ideas put forward were in "keeping with how America does its operations."

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Two months after Miller made his recommendations, some of the guards began systematically abusing and humiliating Iraqi detainees. Some guards have said they had been asked by intelligence officers to rough up the prisoners to help the interrogations along.

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Administration officials spent the weekend reviewing hundreds of photographs collected as part of the investigation, some showing additional instances of humiliation of captives and many consisting of heterosexual pornography involving soldiers in uniform. Senior military officials said the images, including digital video files, depict stunning physical abuse of prisoners in Iraq.

"It's not snapshots of people pointing at detainees -- it's live-action abuse," said a Pentagon official who spoke anonymously because the videos had not been released. "It's horrible."

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[saigon68]

9. MEYERS AND MILLER AGENTS OF NEOCON COVER UP

Meyers is working overtime to keep the lid on this. According to MSNBC the "PICTURES
AREN'T EVEN IN DC YET"

What a Freaking LIE. They could send a Giga bite of data in 2 seconds for heaven sakes ---do
they believe we are that STOOPID ??

NeoCon Fucking liars posing as Generals



Next week or the week after next the NEOCON Generals plan to let a few select congressMEN
see them..

Then after the congressMEN go on TV with their usual outrage statements THE PENTAGON
will decide what to do next.

I hope the DINOS and others keep the heat on these CRIMINALS IN UNIFORM