The Army’s investigation of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, known as the Fay Report, was issued on August 25, 2004. “The report, which was based on 170 interviews and reviews of 9,000 documents, detailed 44 incidents of abuse ranging from unlawful stress positions to using dogs in the course of interrogations. One […]
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8/25/2004
The Army’s investigation of the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, known as the Fay Report, was issued on August 25, 2004. “The report…criticized Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq when the abuse took place. ‘We did not find Sanchez culpable, but we did find him responsible for the things […]
8/24/2004
“It…was reported by the Independent Panel [to Review DOD (Department of Defense) Detention Operations] in [August 24] 2004 that some fifty thousand persons had been detained at Guantanamo and at some twenty-five sites in Afghanistan and seventeen sites in Iraq…” – Jordan J. Paust, Beyond the Law, Page 17 […]
8/24/2004
According to the Independent Panel to Review DOD (Department of Defense) Detention Operations’ report on August 24, 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld’s ‘augmented [interrogation] techniques for Guantanamo migrated to Afghanistan and Iraq where they were neither limited nor safeguarded,’ that ‘the chain of command ignored reports’ of abuse, and that ‘[m]ore than once a […]
8/24/2004
Former Secretary of Defense James “Schlesinger told a news conference Tuesday [August 24, 2004] that the four-member independent panel he chaired found that abuses photographed at Abu Ghraib [prison in Iraq] represented ‘deviant behavior and a failure of military leadership and discipline’ at the facility. He said the panel, appointed by [Secretary of Defense Donald] […]
8/24/2004
The Schlesinger Report on Abu Ghraib was released on August 24, 2004. “Of the 300 allegations of abuse that have been made from the 50,000 people detained in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, 155 investigations have been completed and 66 cases of abuse substantiated, the report said. Eight took place at Guantanamo, three in Afghanistan, […]
8/23/2004
“A nonpartisan investigation led by two former Secretaries of Defense, James Schlesinger and Harold Brown, which included the late Congresswoman Tillie Fowler [R-FL] and retired General Charles Horner [aka the Schlesinger Panel], found [in their report on August 23, 2004] that ‘There is no evidence of a policy of abuse promulgated by senior officials or […]
8/18/2004
Former Iraq Survey Group leader “David Kay, testified before Congress on August 18 [2004] about the Iraq WMD intelligence. There was plenty of blame to go around, he said, but his most pointed criticism was of the NSC [National Security Council] and by implication [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice. ‘The dog that did not bark […]
8/18/2004
“There is no evidence that [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice raised major objections to the war [in Iraq] or serious questions about the false intelligence that justified it. As a result, she failed in a basic part of her job as national security adviser, which was presenting the president [Bush] with all the options, particularly […]
8/15/2004
Regarding the torture of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Deputy Chief in the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo said: “Abu Ghraib operated under the Geneva Conventions from the start, as it should have under our laws. Several Pentagon investigations, most notably a bipartisan panel chaired by two former secretaries of defense, James […]