COVER-UP. Newsweek may use a rhetorical question mark in their headline, but then so did Time in the article about Cheney didn’t they? Fay has questioned no one above the rank of Colonel. Cheney worker Douglas Feith is shaping up as a major player in all of the evidence as one of the top bad guys.
Talk about the cat already being out of the bag before taking action…..
March 3rd, 2004 - Taguba finishes his report and turns it in. In the report, he names Military Intelligence and not the MPs as “directly or indirectly responsible” for the torture at Abu Ghraib, and calls for an immediate and thorough investigation of the MI units attached to the prison (this was beyond the scope of Taguba’s assignment and a very brave move). He warns in his final conclusions that if his recommendations (to investigate MI) are not carried out immediately, the torture and “grave breaches of international law” at AG will continue.
April 13 or 14, 2004 - In exactly this time frame, according to both JCS Chairman Myers and Dan Rather, Myers contacted Dan Rather and convinced him not to run the piece on torture on Abu Ghraib that eventually ran on April 28th (Rather decided he could suppress it no longer without being scooped by Hersh on the 30th with his New Yorker story).
May 7th, 2004 - During his first and most disastrous Senate hearing appearance regarding Abu Ghraib (the “we can’t find the chain of command” debacle) Rumsfeld suddenly volunteers out of nowhere that an investigation by a General Fay of MI “had been started” on April 23rd. This is at least 10 days after the date we are absolutely certain that the Pentagon knew they had been found out on their cover-up, which lasted from March 3rd to April 13 at a minimum. How do we know it’s a cover-up? The main MI officer named as responsible, Gen. Geoffrey Miller, since proven to be much more culpable than even Taguba knew, was appointed head of Abu Ghraib during this time frame, and runs it at this hour.
That is all you need to know, to prove a cover-up.
Here’s one possible reason: to insulate the Pentagon top brass and civilian leadership from the stink of Abu Ghraib. Sanchez was running CENTCOM. In order to assign a higher ranking officer to investigate him, it would have had to come from outside of CENTCOM, from above. Now, with Casey in place, any internal investigation focusing on Sanchez that could become politically neccesary can be ordered by Casey from CENTCOM. This is a firewall… in my opinion.
Below the cut is a news report on the shake-up.
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Below the cut is simply a long file where I have collected various published timelines. As I said in another htread, the thing to look for is not who knew what when, but who knew and did NOTHING when. For instince, Taguba _finished_ his report in early March. (all along the facts were becoming plain, and his superiors were informed about how the investigation was going.) Sanchez signed the damn thing and ordered some grunts charged in MAY. What happened in April? The damn pictures started leaking out, that’s what. If they hadn’t leaked, and Hersh hadn’t gotten his hands on the classified Taguba report, we still wouldn’t know anything and Granger and his buddies would still be on active duty somewhere. What do I base this on? The fact that dozens of other torturers and murderers are still running around loose, pending non-existant or BS “pentagon invesigations”. (Pentagon invesitgations like the one that made a wedding video invisible.) Also missing from nearly all of these timelines are facts and dates on the over 30 MURDERS that took place of prisoners…. from Afghanistan to GITMO.
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Link here. This predated the Taguba report.
“In one incident described in detail by the senior Army officer, an aggressive roundup in September brought 57 Iraqis into custody. But a review by military intelligence officers at Abu Ghraib determined that only two of them had intelligence value and that the rest should be freed.
An American general at the headquarters in Baghdad overruled that decision, and dictated that all 57 Iraqis be kept in custody. The senior Army officer quoted the general as saying something like, “I don’t care if they are innocent; if we release them, they’ll go out and tell their friends that we’re after them.”