[R-G] RE: [107disc]

[David Mcreynolds]

This is, I believe, the coming issue of the New Yorker - for those without a subscription. Let's focus on the big shots at the top and then work our way down to the bottom, instead of letting Rumsfeld and company scape goat the little guys and gals (no, I'm not saying they are innocent or should not be punished - but war crimes don't begin at the bottom, they begin at the top, with war itself).

David



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Fred Feldman 
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Sent: 5/15/2004 10:22:53 PM 
Subject: [107disc] 


THE GRAY ZONE
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib.
Issue of 2004-05-24

The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal 
inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year 
by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret 
operation, which had been focussed on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the 
interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the 
American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of élite combat 
units, and hurt America’s prospects in the war on terror.

According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence 
officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community 
by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion 
and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more 
intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, 
in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation 
stemmed from Rumsfeld’s long-standing desire to wrest control of America’s 
clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A.


http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040524fa_fact




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