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Leftover Clintonoids still in the Pentagon
I'm late to this discussion, but I completely agree with you. Clinton appointees at the Pentagon, and let's not forget the State Department. And I remember that so many Freepers asked why W wasn't getting rid of them after he came into office. He should have. He'd better for his second term. He'll be doing the country a favor.

And these Clinton friends and holdovers will gleefully leak every photo and video from this investigation.

From the Tuguba Report:

I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:

a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;

b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;

c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;

d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;

e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women’s underwear;

f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;

g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;

h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;

i. (S) Writing “I am a Rapest” (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;

j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee’s neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;

k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;

l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;

m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees.

... so many Freepers asked why W wasn't getting rid of them after he came into office. He should have.

Clinton had the status of many of his appointees changed from appointee to civil service before he left office. Civil service employees are very difficult to fire. This combined with the huge number of executive orders X42 signed in the last days of his term left the Bush team with a lot of land mines.