“Lt. Col. Stephen Jordan, the former head of the interrogation center at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq]… was charged with dereliction of duty, lying to investigators, failure to obey lawful orders, and mistreatment of prisoners. [On August 28, 2007] Jordan was acquitted of all serious charges, and the one conviction for failure to obey orders was later dismissed on the grounds that Maj. Gen. George Fay, the officer who investigated the Abu Ghraib tortures and who interrogated Jordan, did not have a record of having given him his Miranda warnings. Assuming that to be the case, it should not have led to a dismissal of the charges, but merely to the inadmissibility to any confession he may have made. However, the presiding judge dismissed the charges outright, even though the prosecution could have proven the tortures by other means.”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Pages 219-220