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The Washington Post, in a story first released on its Web site Saturday night, said a military lawyer stated at an open hearing April 2 that Capt. Donald J. Reese told him that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez and other senior military officers were aware of the abuse at the prison.

NEW YORK In the wake of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, Reuters revealed on Tuesday that three Iraqis working for the company, and another Iraqi journalist working for NBC News, were seized for no reason in early January by the U.S. military and taken to a prison near Fallujah where they were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, among other forms of mistreatment. The U.S. military has denied the accusations.

Congress Ignored Reports of Prisoner Abuse Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Tuesday, May 11, 2004 Democrats howling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for not informing them of reports of prisoner abuse in Baghdad are ignoring the fact that concerned parents of an accused soldier informed 16 members of Congress - top Democrats such as Senators Hillary Clinton, Edward Kennedy and John D. Rockefeller - and the governor of Virginia of the burgeoing scandal as far back as February 26th of this year. None of these people acted to disclose the detailed information contained in the letters. While the...

The female GI who is at the center of the storm over allegations of mistreatment at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison has told military investigators that she received no specific orders to abuse detainees. A transcript of her May 5 military interview obtained by the New York Times shows England was asked, "Did anyone ever give specific orders of how to 'break' detainees?" "No," England answered point blank. Instead she told probers that military intelligence merely encouraged them to keep doing whatever they were doing to soften prisoners up - "that we were doing a good job." If true, England's admission...

I cant find this anywhere, even MSNBC doesnt have it on there site. But a Uncle of a Spc being charged in the Iraqi Abuse scandal told MSNBC the names of the Senators who ignored his plea for help on ths issue. Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Sen Akaya(?), Sen Byrd, Ben Nelson and some others. One told him that he wasnt a direct relative so they couldnt help him, and Sen Byrd told him that he doesnt respond to emails less than 500 words! Lets all call them to step down for covering up the story!

A propaganda windfall is how the CBS story of the abused Iraqi prisoners is being described in the press and in intelligence circles. It matters not at all that the indignities visited upon those prisoners by our own troops is exceedingly mild by Middle Eastern standards, and especially when compared to the previous Baathist norms. What matters is that we can be shown to violate our own standards and that these violations were done by what the Middle East classes as ‘infidels.’ But all this may understate the overall situation significantly as the Baathists gain new acceptance within the Middle...

Graphic photographs showing the torture and sexual abuse of Iraqi prisoners in a US-run prison outside Baghdad emerged yesterday from a military inquiry which has left six soldiers facing a possible court martial and a general under investigation. The scandal has also brought to light the growing and largely unregulated role of private contractors in the interrogation of detainees.According to lawyers for some of the soldiers, they claimed to be acting in part under the instruction of mercenary interrogators hired by the Pentagon.US military investigators discovered the photographs, which include images of a hooded prisoner with wires fixed to his...