Obama Will Not Use Term "Enemy Combatant"

[PLC1]

We go out of our way to not mistreat people. If it was policy as your claim, why even bother prosecuting those that carried it out?

To appease the news media, of course. We didn't see any prosecuting being done until the public began to catch on to what was happening, did we?

 

[BigRob]

To appease the news media, of course. We didn't see any prosecuting being done until the public began to catch on to what was happening, did we?

That is not even accurate. Abu Ghraib came to public attention in 2004, but an Army investigation was already underway in 2003, and some soldiers had already been tried.

 

[PLC1]

That is not even accurate. Abu Ghraib came to public attention in 2004, but an Army investigation was already underway in 2003, and some soldiers had already been tried.

are you sure about that?

In May 2004, just weeks after the images of abuse at Abu Ghraib had become public, the commanding officer of American forces in the Middle East sat before Congress and shared what he considered to be a bedrock tenet of military leadership.

And they still haven't prosecuted the ones giving the orders. Can you say "scapegoat"?

And Abu Ghraib was only a small part of the torture of prisoners. If the American People could have been kept in the dark, it never would have stopped.

 

[BigRob]

are you sure about that?

Yes, read the Taguba Report, an investigation was already underway late 2003, and then into 2004 before the abuse was public knowledge.

And they still haven't prosecuted the ones giving the orders. Can you say "scapegoat"?

And Abu Ghraib was only a small part of the torture of prisoners. If the American People could have been kept in the dark, it never would have stopped.

Never stopped? They were already being investigated for it before the public had any idea about it.

 

[PLC1]

Yes, read the Taguba Report, an investigation was already underway late 2003, and then into 2004 before the abuse was public knowledge.



Never stopped? They were already being investigated for it before the public had any idea about it.

I hadn't heard of the Taguba Report by name.

From Wiki:

The Taguba Report is the common name of an official Article 15-6 military inquiry conducted in 2004 into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse.

The Taguba Report asserted that, due to "credible" evidence and confessions, numerous instances of abuse occurred at Abu Ghraib Prison in late 2003 including the simple assault of prisoners, the humiliation of prisoners, and the harassment of prisoners.[3]

The Taguba Report also found "credible" evidence of detainees being burned with phosphoric liquid, subject to aggravated assault, threatened with dogs, and an instance of a detainee who was sodomized with an object.[3]

The Report recommended increased training of interrogators and the dissemination of information regarding the treatment of prisoners, both actions emphasizing the Geneva Conventions.[4]

I don't see anything about recommending prosecution. Maybe Wiki has it wrong, or maybe I'm missing something. If so, then the inquiry did start before the public was aware of what was going on.