NYT: ( DOD Abu Ghraib) Report Is Likely to Prompt Criminal Charges

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THE INQUIRY
Report Is Likely to Prompt Criminal Charges
By ADAM LIPTAK

Published: August 27, 2004


The Defense Department report on the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, issued Wednesday, will almost certainly give rise to criminal charges or disciplinary action against many of the more than 50 people found responsible. But the report's most immediate impact will probably be in the handful of pending cases against low-level military police personnel.

One of the seven soldiers charged, Specialist Jeremy C. Sivits, has pleaded guilty. Another, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II, has said he plans to plead guilty to some charges.

Lawyers for the remaining five say the report's findings lend support to their central defense - that they were following orders from military intelligence officers and others....

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The report, by Maj. Gen. George R. Fay and Lt. Gen. Anthony R. Jones, concluded that 42 military intelligence soldiers, officers, medics and civilian contractors bore some degree of responsibility for the abuses. It also said four more military police officers had a role in the abuses.
The findings were forwarded to military commanders and the Justice Department for possible criminal charges and disciplinary actions, and additional prosecutions beyond the first seven are inevitable, legal experts said....


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/27legal.html

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1. Disciplinary action = Slap on the wrist.

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2. Indicte Rumsfailed

Rumsfailed Admitted to Violating Geneva Convention

Rumsfailed admitted in public that when CIA Director Tenet requested that an Irai prisoner be sent to a secret Afghan/US Prison that Rumsfailed did so. After four months a DOD Attorney stated that this was an illegal act. Rumsfailed then ordered that this prisoner be sent back to Abu Graib but the prisoner was not listed at that location. That is two violations of the Geneva Convention. Tenet and Rumsfailed violated the Geneva convention, thereby also The Constitution of the USA. Not one complaint or charge was made regarding Rumsfailed and Tenet, not even by any Dem in Congress.

Does the US no longer follow the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the USA?

It appears so.

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3. Aren't these war crimes?