Posted on 12/03/2004 12:16:35 AM PST by Former Military Chick
Report warning of possible abuses was sent to officials before Abu Ghraib photos surfaced.
CIA officers in Iraq were ordered to stay away from a U.S. military interrogation facility last year because agency officials questioned the way detainees were being interrogated, according to a December 2003 report on a secret special operations unit.
The report warning of possible abuses of Iraqi detainees in U.S. custody was sent to commanders in Iraq a month before the now infamous photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison emerged early this year, the Pentagon said Wednesday in confirming some of the findings.
The report by retired Army Col. Stuart A. Herrington — who visited Iraq in 2003 to assess U.S. intelligence gathering operations against Iraqi insurgents — warned that U.S. special operations troops and CIA operatives might be abusing Iraqi prisoners.
Herrington's report went up the chain of command to Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. commander in Iraq at the time, who ordered that the possible abuses be investigated, Pentagon officials said.
Pentagon officials could not say Wednesday what became of that investigation. The Herrington report was included as a classified attachment to a report released this summer by Maj. Gen. George R. Fay and Lt. Gen. Anthony R. Jones, who investigated the role of U.S. intelligence officials in Iraqi prisoner abuse. The contents of the attachment were first reported Wednesday by the Washington Post.
Herrington included a warning in the year-old report that Task Force 121— a secret unit made up of special operations troops and CIA paramilitary operatives — needed to be "reined in with respect to its treatment of detainees," according to a source familiar with the report.
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More stink bombs from the keystone cops aka CIA.
Which CIA agents were these pray tell? The liberal Clinton ones per chance? No doubt.
CIA officers in Iraq were ordered to stay away from a U.S. military interrogation facility last year because agency officials questioned the way detainees were being interrogated,
and then it says...
.the year-old report that Task Force 121— a secret unit made up of special operations troops and CIA paramilitary operatives — needed to be "reined in with respect to its treatment of detainees,"
So the CIA brass was told to stay away from the prision because CIA operatives were running wild !!!
Doesn't this lend credence to the claims by some of the troops involved that they were ordered to do these things by the CIA?
Preservation of Plausible deniability?
Sorry, no trickle here..
This is just a re-hash of information that has been known from the start..
First public reports of possible abuse came out in october-november of 2003..
First private reports (within the military) came out in about September '03...
The article notes a December '03 report..
This article is merely an attempt to keep Abu-Ghraib in the news.. nothing more, nothing less.
.....In Jesus' Precious Name, Amen!
Got that right. What a pile of BS.
There is a disconnect in the stories about the Abu Garid interrogations.
The military claims that CIA was responsible for the interrogations and techniques used.
Now we have a report surfacing that says the CIA warned its operatives not to get involved with the interrogations. CYA?
Who do we believe?
Given the way the CIA has done everything it can to sabotage this administration, who do YOU believe?
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