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| Abu Ghraib report said to exonerate top brass |
| By Los Angeles Times |
| Published: 08/23/2004 |
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A long-awaited report on abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison will implicate about two dozen military intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors in the intimidation and sexual humiliation of Iraq war prisoners, but will not suggest wrongdoing by military brass outside the prison, senior defense officials said last Wednesday. The report, scheduled for release this week, will recommend disciplinary action against two senior officers at the prison; the colonel in charge of the military intelligence brigade that oversaw interrogations at the compound near Baghdad and a general in charge of a reserve military police brigade at the prison. It also will recommend that two dozen intelligence soldiers face criminal abuse charges similar to those lodged earlier against seven reserve military police soldiers, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. But Defense Department officials said the report implicates no one outside the prison. "The report is going to say responsibility for Abu Ghraib stops at the brigade level," a senior defense official said. The prison abuse scandal has drawn international condemnation and questions over U.S. interrogation and detention policies. It also has cast a legal cloud over U.S. efforts to begin trials for people detained at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Defense attorneys in those cases, which begin next week, may use evidence of abuse to question the legitimacy of confessions and other government evidence. But one senior defense official said the report by Army Maj. Gen. George Fay will make clear that "no one in Washington said stack people on top of each other, naked." That image helped fuel the scandal." In his report, one of 11 ongoing internal military probes into prison abuse, Fay was given the authority to recommend action against senior military brass up to Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who was the top ground commander in Iraq at the time. The administration has portrayed the abuses as isolated incidents committed in disregard of established procedures. But critics have questioned whether administration policies favoring more aggressive interrogations contributed to a climate in which abuses occurred and whether Fay's findings might be part of a lax Pentagon response. Another of the internal military investigations into prison problems drew criticism when it was released last month. That investigation, a review of the detention system by the Army's inspector general, concluded that instances of misconduct were "aberrations," a finding that was widely denounced. |
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