Here's Reuters version:
A high-level panel investigating U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top Pentagon officials and the
military command in Iraq ( - ) contributed to an environment in which
detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a defense official said
on Tuesday.
The independent Pentagon panel headed by former Defense Secretary James
Schlesinger found that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Joint
Chiefs of Staff failed to exercise proper oversight over confusing
detention policies at U.S. prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba, the
official said..
But the official, who asked not to be identified, stressed that the
four-member group, scheduled to release its report later on Tuesday, did
not conclude that Rumsfeld or military leaders directly ordered abuse such
as stripping prisoners naked and sexually humiliating them in a scandal
that has drawn international condemnation.
The official confirmed a report in the New York Times on the Schlesinger
panel's findings that also said it concluded that the military's Joint
Staff at the Pentagon - which is responsible for allocating forces - did
not recognize that Abu Ghraib guards were overwhelmed by an influx of
detainees during violence in Iraq.
The Times said the report also criticizes the top general in Iraq at the
time, Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, for not paying close enough attention
to the problems at Abu Ghraib.
NOT FAR ENOUGH, SAYS RIGHTS GROUP
Reed Brody, a spokesman for Human Rights Watch, said the report did not go
far enough. "They are talking about management failures when they should be
talking about who in the Pentagon and the military command ordered,
approved or tolerated the torture of detainees."
"The report does not seem to examine the relationship between Secretary
Rumsfeld's approval of interrogation techniques designed to inflict pain
and humiliation and the widespread abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan
and Guantanamo," Brody said.
Seven U.S. Army reservists from the 372nd Military Police Company have
already been accused of humiliating and in some cases beating and
photographing Iraqi detainees at the infamous prison near Baghdad, once
used as a torture chamber by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( - ).
Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick, the highest-ranking of the seven, reached a deal
with Army prosecutors after agreeing to plead guilty to some of the charges
at a pretrial hearing in Mannheim, Germany, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
In Mannheim, a U.S. military judge also ruled that Rumsfeld could not be
forced to testify in the court martial of another sergeant charged in the
abuse.
Meanwhile, another Army investigation report to be released on Wednesday
will recommend that 20 or more military intelligence troops and others at
Abu Ghraib face administrative or perhaps criminal punishment in the
scandal that has infuriated the Arab world.
The Schlesinger panel, named by Rumsfeld to look into the abuse and how
effectively the Pentagon is addressing the problem with a number of
investigations, also includes former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, former
Florida Republican Rep. Tillie Fowler and retired Air Force Gen. Charles
Horner, who led the allied air campaign in the 1991 Gulf War ( - ).
The New York Times reported that the panel interviewed Rumsfeld, Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman
of the Pentagon's military Joint Chiefs of Staff, during its investigation.
The newspaper said that the Schlesinger panel criticized the leadership of
Army Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police
Brigade at Abu Ghraib. She was also criticized in an earlier abuse
investigation headed by Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba.
Karpinski has received a letter of reprimand and been suspended from her
post. She is protesting that suspension.
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"But the Fay report maintains that the abuse was perpetrated by a few soldiers, but went unchecked as a result of military leadership deficiencies, the Army official said. "
THAT IS NEITHER THE FAULT OF RUMSFELD, THE PENTAGON, OR GENERALS OUTSIDE OF THE PRISONS. IT IS THE FAULT OF THE LADY GEN. KARPINSKI.
It has already been shown that she admitted to not knowing what was going on under her own command. HOW WOULD THE PENTAGON KNOW THIS IS GOING ON IF NOBODY REPORTS IT TO THEM?
CSPAN has the panel in press conference right now.
Says that there was not policy for abuse.
Policy stated that abuse should NOT happen
Abuse at the prison was NOT DONE under purpose for advised interogation. It was done by people on the night shift...
It was a result of and "ANIMAL HOUSE" on the night shift.