Rummy: Your statements inaccurate. 43,000 captured. 31,000 already released. Big task. Red Cross voiced concern. Corrections started to be made. Taguba's report found a number of corrections already made.
Specialist Darby told superior that he had information about abuses (jan 13 or 14); on Jan 16, allegations announced and said they were being investigated. Public Affairs went out again -- listed types of abuses, even CNN was there. Rummy and Myers were meeting with the president and discussing it.
Rummy: Absolutely not.
Roberts: Chair of Intell. Held hearing three days ago, no evidence of abuses because of mil int asking them to "soften up" prisoners.
Is there any truth to allegation that abuse was at the behest of mil interrogators.
Rummy: I heard the same allegations.
Myers adds unit is redeployed in Germany will slow down answers.
Jan 16 is a long time ago in these matters. It appears that without the photo evidence, that this was going to keep 'being investigated', 'unread' and 'somewhere in the chain of command'.
And the photos probably surfaced here because they were about to be published elsewhere with a more detrimental effect. Maybe there is a lot of scrubbing off the fingerprints of outsourced interrogators. The army was downsized and it shows.