Sunday Open Thread and Abu Ghraib
Happy Fathers Day, everyone. How about a Sunday open thread?
The must-read of the day in my view is Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib, The General's Report.
Taguba also knew that senior officials in Rumsfeld’s office and elsewhere in the Pentagon had been given a graphic account of the pictures from Abu Ghraib, and told of their potential strategic significance, within days of the first complaint.
A sample of what we didn't see:
I learned from Taguba that the first wave of materials included descriptions of the sexual humiliation of a father with his son, who were both detainees....Taguba said that he saw “a video of a male American soldier in uniform sodomizing a female detainee.” The video was not made public in any of the subsequent court proceedings, nor has there been any public government mention of it.
Why didn't we see them?
Such images would have added an even more inflammatory element to the outcry over Abu Ghraib. “It’s bad enough that there were photographs of Arab men wearing women’s panties,” Taguba said.
More on Rumsfeld:
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