In his devastating report on conditions at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq, Major General Antonio M. Taguba singled out only three military men for praise. One of them, Master-at-Arms William J. Kimbro, a Navy dog handler, should be commended, Taguba wrote, because he “knew his duties and refused to participate in improper interrogations despite significant pressure from the MI”—military intelligence—“personnel at Abu Ghraib.” Elsewhere in the report it became clear what Kimbro would not do: American soldiers, Taguba said, used “military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.”
Hersh leads his story about "devastating" conditions, by describing a detainee "actually" being bitten by a dog.
Devastating? or overplayed?
I was once bitten by a dog when I was a paper boy. It was a large German Sheppard. The owner kept the dog to intimidate and frighten people.