The Fay Report, an “August [25] 2004 report by [Army] Major General George Fay [into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq] concluded that ‘CIA detention and interrogation practices led to a loss of accountability, abuse, reduced interagency cooperation and an unhealthy mystique that further poisoned the atmosphere at Abu Ghraib.’ “ – Jane Mayer, […]
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. Maj. Gen. George “Fay, who along with Lt. Gen. Anthony Jones led a team of 28 investigators, analysts and legal advisers, said the probe showed 15 of 23 personnel were doing things […]
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, […]
8/24/2004
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
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
“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 […]
8/23/2004
“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
“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 […]
8/18/2004
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 […]
8/15/2004
“World attention again focused on the Mahdi Army in August 2004, when the US tried to arrest [radical Shi’i cleric Moqtada] al-Sadr in Najaf [Iraq], the Shi’is’ holiest city. A major battle ensued between 2,000 US Marines, 1,800 Iraqi security forces despatched by Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and 2,000 members of the Mahdi Army. […]