The British newspaper Daily Telegraph reported that retired Major General Antonio Taguba told them that he had seen the images that Obama wanted to prevent from being released. The newspaper quoted him as saying: "These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency."
But Taguba told Salon that while he had seen pictures from Abu Ghraib which showed horrific abuse, he had not seen the 44 pictures which the American Civil Liberties Union was seeking to have released."The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen," he told Salon.
The Obama administration at first agreed to release the 44 pictures, but reversed course, arguing that they could put U.S. troops abroad at greater risk.The administration also accused the Daily Telegraph of misquoting Taguba, with the White House going so far as to cast doubt on the accuracy of the British press in general.Taguba, who retired in January 2007, led an investigation in 2004 into abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison which included allegations of rape and sexual abuse.
Fine, now take it easy on the interviews because this rumor is out of the bag.
Taguba saw the photos of torture, rape, and abuse. Our service people were lead into these acts by the leadership in charge of interrogations. That went up higher and higher and higher in chain of command.
ReplyDeleteYou still want to justify torture.
It is indecent to promote torture and abuse of prisoners.
It's a gulag mentality. The right should be the people of the greatest honor to stand against evil.
The right has become the greatest friend of terrorists - the government - those who torture.
There is no terrorist we should be more concerned about than those terrorists of the Government of the USA. They pose the greatest threat to us as American people. Take a tour of any nation where gulags function, and you will see that it is government that is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people. When they go pro-torture, they are totalitarians - and the reach of their totalitarianism will reach their own population if it is not stopped by decent people in the country. Evil prevails when good men do nothing. Evil moves very quickly to overpower a nation when good men advance evil, support evil, and cheer it on.
Torture is totalitarian and it is evil. Pandora's box has been opened. Fail to close it at your own peril.
Grace,
ReplyDeleteTaguba is saying he didn't, as for Gulags, yes Stalin, Castro, Hitler. Not the detention facility in Abu when Americans ran it.