Has anyone else been tracking this thing the Washington Post published today?
Evidently the Post has accused the U.S. of war crimes. According to documents released in response to a lawsuit by the ACLU, the official story, that the torture at Abu Ghraib prison was an isolated incident carried out by low-ranking reservists is—not to put too fine a point on it—bullshit.
According to the new documents, incidents of prisoner abuse were already happening at Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002, and they continued in Iraq even after the Abu Ghraib incident went public. The documents even include a quote from an FBI agents report about a conversation he had with Guantanamo's commander, Maj. Gen. Geoffry D. Miller, who defended the use of interrogation techniques the FBI regarded as illegal on the grounds that the military "has their marching orders from the Secretary of Defense."
General Miller has testified under oath that dogs were never used to intimidate prisoners at Guantanamo, as authorized by Donald Rumsfeld in December 2002; the FBI papers show otherwise. The newly released documents catalog the systematic abuse of detainees that also included beatings, chokings, prolonged sleep deprivation and humiliations such as being wrapped in an Israeli flag. Mock executions and torture by electric shock were also carried out.