4/13/2006

On April 13, 2006, retired Major General “Charles Swannack, who had led the 82nd Airborne when the division was occupying Fallujah and Camp Mercury [Iraq]…complained that [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld had ‘micromanaged the generals’ and also bore ‘culpability associated with the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.’ ”

 – Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, Page 215