High-Ranking Officers Not Blamed For Prisoner Abuse

[Warsai]

WASHINGTON — A new Army report on prisoner abuse by intelligence personnel at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison cites misconduct by military interrogators but exonerates high-ranking Pentagon officials and senior U.S. military commanders, a Pentagon official said Wednesday.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/i...y-report_x.htm

[plazul]

How do you like their excuse? "We had no idea what was going on." Exactly.

[Warsai]

Originally Posted by plazul

How do you like their excuse? "We had no idea what was going on." Exactly.

That's right, they didn't know. It was just the ones that actually committed the acts of abuse and the officers that told them to do it. One thing I don't understand is, don't the ones who abused the prisoners have any moral sense at all. Would they go that far to obey their commanders? And why would the commanders be so stupid to order someone to abuse another human being?

[plazul]

This is just the work of a group of undisciplined soldiers who started out with juvenile antics and progressed to torture. It was a failure of command because they had no internal controls for such behavior. Also, the prison lacked some very basic eqyuipment for any prison. Security cameras and a daily video record of activity in the corridors.

They should have had segregated security staff manning surveillance cameras.