Ryder may have protected himself, but Taguba did not. “He’s not regarded as a hero in some circles in the Pentagon,” a retired Army major general said of Taguba. “He’s the guy who blew the whistle, and the Army will pay the price for his integrity. The leadership does not like to have people make bad news public.”New Yorker > Seymour M. Hersh: Chain of Command. How the Department of Defense mishandled the disaster at Abu Ghraib.
Secrecy and wishful thinking, the Pentagon official said, are defining characteristics of Rumsfeld’s Pentagon, and shaped its response to the reports from Abu Ghraib. “They always want to delay the release of bad news—in the hope that something good will break,” he said.
wenn das schon die pentagonbeamten meinen...
Soon after 9/11, as the war on terror got under way, Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly made public his disdain for the Geneva conventions. Complaints about America’s treatment of prisoners, Rumsfeld said in early 2002, amounted to “isolated pockets of international hyperventilation.”
das ist keine politische verantwortung mehr. das ist persönliche verantwortung. aber natürlich kein grund zurückzutreten. stattdessen klopfen ihm jetzt alle seine kollegen aus der administration auf die schultern, was er für nen tollen job macht. sind in abu ghraib eigentlich noch ein paar zellen frei?