MOTHERJONES
Rumsfeld had dispatched a team from Guantanamo to jack up the occupying forces' interrogation system. In General Fay's and others' assessments, this "Gitmoizing" of Iraq—advancing techniques used against detainees Bush had declared undeserving of Geneva protections, and transforming MPs from simple jailers to torturers—was a big reason for so much "confusion" at Abu Ghraib. In the Fort Meade courtroom, however, witnesses spoke of the Gitmo team almost as efficiency experts. They "provided for us lessons learned," said ...

MOTHERJONES
Rumsfeld had dispatched a team from Guantanamo to jack up the occupying forces' interrogation system. In General Fay's and others' assessments, this "Gitmoizing" of Iraq—advancing techniques used against detainees Bush had declared undeserving of Geneva protections, and transforming MPs from simple jailers to torturers—was a big reason for so much "confusion" at Abu Ghraib. In the Fort Meade courtroom, however, witnesses spoke of the Gitmo team almost as efficiency experts. They "provided for us lessons learned," said Boltz, and the jidc was "designed to mirror what was successful at Guantanamo Bay," said another witness.

Abu Ghraib posted "a 50%-70% increase in intelligence reporting between September and December 2003." For most of that period, until mid-November, Jordan was on the job, and in the end Saddam Hussein was captured. No one offered that most of that intelligence was garbage: Rumsfeld was getting weekly and sometimes nightly reports, but the insurgency only grew stronger.

No one in a military courtroom was interested in impugning the war, certainly, or the system that gave Jordan meaning, the Byzantine world of interrogators, private contractors, professional liars, political do-boys, and average MI sods like him. Jordan's lawyers would not, and the Army's lawyers could not—institutionally but also tactically. Some of the government's own witnesses were officers neck-deep in the muck who were never prosecuted.

MOTHERJONES
Pappas had allowed the use of dogs in interrogation, for which he ultimately was reprimanded and fined $8,000. More important, Pappas knew that gross abuses were going on at Abu Ghraib because he received Red Cross reports in 2003 saying so. He did nothing, just as Jordan did nothing, to inhibit the routine shackling, hooding, solitary confinement, sensory deprivation, distribution of women's panties to men, and more that the Red Cross had found.

...both the prosecution and the defence had cause to avoid the subject of regularized abuse. On the stand, ...

MOTHERJONES
Pappas had allowed the use of dogs in interrogation, for which he ultimately was reprimanded and fined $8,000. More important, Pappas knew that gross abuses were going on at Abu Ghraib because he received Red Cross reports in 2003 saying so. He did nothing, just as Jordan did nothing, to inhibit the routine shackling, hooding, solitary confinement, sensory deprivation, distribution of women's panties to men, and more that the Red Cross had found.

...both the prosecution and the defence had cause to avoid the subject of regularized abuse. On the stand, Colonel Pappas said Lt. Colonel Jordan had told him only.

Captain Carolyn Wood noted that since questioning has to be conducted at 2 a.m. instead of 2 p.m., sleep deprivation is "a very demanding program on the interrogators as well." Wood was directly in charge of interrogators at Abu Ghraib. Before that, her MI unit was implicated in the death of two detainees under interrogation in Afghanistan.

The Funny Bit
The judge, Colonel Stephen Henley, struggled to keep his eyes open, the bailiff yawned and sagged, the president of the panel slunk into his chair squinting. Every day of Jordan's trial a strapping fellow in battle dress uniform sat in the gallery monitoring the proceedings for classified material. He held a small device, and at the merest slip toward the divulging of state secrets he was to press a button that would trigger a light on the bench of Judge Henley, who could promptly halt testimony. The soldier's hand remained still throughout the trial, except for one secon...

The Funny Bit
The judge, Colonel Stephen Henley, struggled to keep his eyes open, the bailiff yawned and sagged, the president of the panel slunk into his chair squinting. Every day of Jordan's trial a strapping fellow in battle dress uniform sat in the gallery monitoring the proceedings for classified material. He held a small device, and at the merest slip toward the divulging of state secrets he was to press a button that would trigger a light on the bench of Judge Henley, who could promptly halt testimony. The soldier's hand remained still throughout the trial, except for one second that first day of testimony when, overcome by the billowing tedium, his head drooped, his fingers relaxed, and the device tumbled to the floor.

What is unnerving is the fact that when what was happening in Abu Ghraib became clear, with countless pictures and documented evidence, while 'Authorities' believed they could get away with a flat denial, the 'operation' become a 'franchise' the practices moved to another venue, and continue throughout the world without the blink of an eye. Bush even being prepared to Veto laws to ban such insulting and life threatening means of interrogation.Seems he's not afraid to show he approved of what went on at Abu Ghraib. You could call it arrogance, but all it does is prove he's a fool. How does a Psychopath manage to get all of those weapons at his fingertips? Only in America. There was something ...

What is unnerving is the fact that when what was happening in Abu Ghraib became clear, with countless pictures and documented evidence, while 'Authorities' believed they could get away with a flat denial, the 'operation' become a 'franchise' the practices moved to another venue, and continue throughout the world without the blink of an eye. Bush even being prepared to Veto laws to ban such insulting and life threatening means of interrogation.Seems he's not afraid to show he approved of what went on at Abu Ghraib. You could call it arrogance, but all it does is prove he's a fool. How does a Psychopath manage to get all of those weapons at his fingertips? Only in America. There was something I heard once that seems to apply.
''You're only as sick as your secrets"
Somehow I get the idea George W actually believes he is doing the right thing, because he is following the instructions of someone who knows better but has managed to apply a rationale that George will accept.doesn't have the courage to come out of the shadows. As Simon Wiesnthal shone light on the hiding places of the NAZIs So those in the darkness now will one day have the spotlight shone on them.