Seymour M. Hersh on Abu Ghraib

[DudeAsInCool]

SEYMOUR M. HERSH of the New Yorker reports on 'How a secret Pentagon program came to Abu Ghraib', and suggests Rumsfeld was more than aware of the harsh interrogration methods used at Abu Ghraib - and further, that he approved them.

Here's a few excerps:

"According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq."

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“I was told that the purpose of the photographs was to create an army of informants, people you could insert back in the population.” The idea was that they would be motivated by fear of exposure, and gather information about pending insurgency action, the consultant said.

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"They told him that, with the war on terror, a fifty-year history of exemplary application of the Geneva Conventions had come to an end.'

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You can read all about it here in the New Yorker online:

:read this: http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040524fa_fact

[DudeAsInCool]

This is an unbelievable article :good job:

[Kooperman]

This is an unbelievable article :good job:

The Bush administration also says the article is not to be believed... :wha':

[Wolfie]

The Bush administration also says the article is not to be believed... :wha':

Why am I not surprised?

[slum_goddess]

who are you going to believe? the bush admin'n or seymour hersh?

[Wolfie]

who are you going to believe? the bush admin'n or seymour hersh? 

Hmmmm...tough choices.

[DudeAsInCool]

Not tough for me - Seymour Hersh

[DudeAsInCool]

Followup article in today's New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06...25fa_fact_hersh

[AnalogKid]

who are you going to believe? the bush admin'n or seymour hersh?

Considering the fact that Hersh was the one who originally broke the story about the abuses at Abu Ghraib, I'll also side with him. Not to mention that virtually everything he has ever written has been right on the mark.

[slum_goddess]

exactly, AnalogKid. :)