LIVE DISCUSSION THREAD..Gen Taguba testifying before Senate committee..C-span 1 and Fox

[ken5050]

Comments...and your opinion..Which Dem wull say the dumbest thing today?

[mystery-ak]

Karpinski's career is over, she is toast!

[babaloo]

Kerpinski is toast. Painted as overwhelmed and not paying attention.

[kcvl]

Good. She should be toast.

[maryz]

Taguba: Also looked at Camp Buka, Camp Crawford.

Warner: What do you think went wrong? Knowledge of involvement by other than US military, i.e., CIA, contractors.

Taguba: It's in his 9,000 page report.

Problem - lack of leadership from brigade commander on down; lack of discipline.

[mombonn]

Failure of leadership, no training, no supervision among causes for the situation.

[Mo1]

and will she make a move soon?

Count on it

[george wythe]

Taguba says that lack of supervisions was rampant

[ken5050]

Yeah..dontcha love it..the senator tels the witness to hurry up and shorten his answers so that seators have more time to pontificate..

[prairiebreeze]

Levin up. Bet he comes out nasty at Taguba. Stay strong soldier.

Prairie

[babaloo]

Bingo. Taguba says it started at Brigade commander level and went down. Karpinsky will be hunted down by the Dems to point the finger at Rummy.

[OXENinFLA]

"Failure in leadership FROM THE BRIGADE COMMANDER ON DOWN."

[Carolinamom]

My grass is growing higher and higher as I watch these hearings and read this live thread! LOL

[YaYa123]

Warner repeats question to Taguba..."what went wrong?" He wants to know if Tagubas report will include info on other agencies involved.

Sir, the comments about participation of other gov agencies were related to us in interviews, in written statements, and in my 6,000 pages, you will find "OGA", or "MI", which means CIA and out of uniformed military types.

"Failure of leadership at brigade level, no supervision, the reason this happened.", that's why Taguba says this happened.

[cyncooper]

Taguba: This happened with failure of Brigade commander on down. Failure of leadership and supervision. That's how this happened.

Levin up.

The dem angle is that this was approved behavior authorized by intelligence officials.

Levin says this was more than oversight and lack of leadership, but active and willful. Taguba agrees (which contradicts his earlier comment).

[woofie]

"General Taguba,at what point in this illegal,immoral war did Halliburton/Cheney/ Rumsfeld/Bush order the brutal American regime to take pictures of the torture and mutilation of innocent Iraqi prisoners ?

[mystery-ak]

Lots of careers are now over, from Karpinski on down....

[ken5050]

Get a goat...

[mass55th]

What's that near Levin's bottom lip? Spittle or a wart? Or love juice from Teddy?

[maryz]

Levin: More than a failure of leadership. Active decision.

According to Cambone, shift of command at prison did not mean MI had authority over detainees.

Taguba: Order to Pappas not under his purview. Order gave MI control of oall units.

[kcvl]

Levin is talking about people failing at a job. He should know since he was probably one of the 17 who got a letter and notices of this problem before it was leaked to the media.