Go read Seymour Hersh's latest, "The General's Report: How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, became one of its casualties." Lots of damning revelations here that cry out for Rumsfeld to finally be held accountable.

Update: Reader JR, a retired Air Force officer, comments that this is a striking quote from the piece: "...Taguba got a different message, however, from other officers, among them General John Abizaid, then the head of Central Command. A few weeks after his report became public, Taguba, who was still in Kuwait, was in the back seat of a Mercedes sedan with Abizaid. Abizaid’s driver and his interpreter, who also served as a bodyguard, were in front. Abizaid turned to Taguba and issued a quiet warning: 'You and your report will be investigated.' 'I wasn’t angry about what he said but disappointed that he would say that to me,' Taguba said. 'I’d been in the Army thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.'”

So, who at the Pentagon decided to force Taguba to resign early?

Posted by Laura at June 17, 2007 08:33 AM