A Pentagon report focusing on military intelligence at Iraq's Abu Ghraib Prison was released today, the day after yesterday's report on the Defense Department's role in the scandal. It finds:

The new report says that 27 military intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors "allegedly requested, encouraged, condoned or solicited" the abuse of Iraqi detainees, it said. But, it continued, "Most, though not all, of the violent or sexual abuses occurred separately from scheduled interrogations and did not focus on persons held for intelligence purposes."

This latest report is based on 170 interviews and a review of more than 9,000 documents by a staff of 28 investigators, analysts and legal advisors. But it is far from the last statement in the matter. Seven low-ranking members of the 372nd Military Police Company, which provided guards for the prison's cellblocks, already have been charged in connection with the abuses, and more legal proceedings against other soldiers and perhaps some civilian contractors are expected.

....it concluded that the major cause of the abuse at the prison outside Baghdad was human failings. "The primary causes are misconduct (ranging from inhumane to sadistic) by a small group of morally corrupt soldiers and civilians, a lack of discipline on the part of the leaders and soldiers . . . and a failure or lack of leadership" at several levels of command, states the report, which was scheduled to be released at 1:30 p.m. by the Army.

Update: The text of the Fay report is here.