[TADSLOS]

I invite your attention to the Abu Ghraib 15-6 investigation document that MG Taguba signed in his capacity as the senior investigating officer. There's no reference to a finding or recommendation concerning DoD or the Bush administration's policies concerning treatment of POWs/detainees. Article 15-6 Investigation

Taguba is simply grandstanding and attempting to make a connection between the command and leadership failures of Abu Ghraib and the broader policies of interrogation techniques used to gain critical intelligence against terrorists. Why? Because he's still bitter for being "let go" as a two star. Also, if you look closely at his personal and career history, you'll see a man who never quite made the A list. Also, he's a protege of Shinseki. They're home boys from Hawaii. It would not surprise me in the least to see Taguba as a freshly minted Obama minion Under SECDEF with policy oversight concerning detainees and interrogations.

Then there's this synopsis of Taguba's testimony before Congress:

Taguba: No direct order given for abuse

Some background and personal perpective on MG Taguba:

Head of Inquiry on Iraq Abuses Now in Spotlight

General Says Prison Inquiry Led to His Forced Retirement

I had direct interaction in 1998 with then BG Taguba when he was the CoS, USARC. I found him to be overly forceful in his dealings with subordinate staff, abrasive at times. I'm not saying that some of his treatment towards the staff wasn't well deserved, but I think he reveled in it. I chocked it up to overcompensation for his physical stature, since he is a rather small man, and the fact that as an AC BG he was assigned to what is considered a second tire, backwater RC assignment. I attributed his actions at the time as one of a bitter man. Apparently, he's still that way.

[Girlene]

Interesting background on General Taguba. It appears he's pushing for a commission to investigate any "abuses". Abu Ghraib investigator Antonio Taguba talks to Salon about why he backs a commission to examine Bush torture policies.

[matginzac]

Belated thanks for your post. We are retired Navy but did a stint at Army War College and thus are in solidarity with our Army brethren. It’s always good to know the REAL story abt some of these betrayers - there’s always some ulterior motive - we love to give the “real poop” on Congressman Sestak from PA - he is a joke to everyone in the Navy who knew him and only ran for Congress because he couldn’t get hired on the outside and wanted to make ADM Mullen’s life miserable for rightly demoting him from three star to two star and then kicking him out...thanks again for the inside gauge - sounds familiar...