And, yes, I DO take it personally: Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo - up the chain of command we go...!

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo - up the chain of command we go...!

about friggin' time we're getting some solid connections between the biggies and those poor bastards down in the ranks who have been taking all the shit...

Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller told top officers during an advisory visit to Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that they needed to get military working dogs for use in interrogations, and he advocated procedures then in use at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to court testimony yesterday.

Maj. David DiNenna, the top military police operations officer at Abu Ghraib in 2003, said that when Miller and a team of Guantanamo Bay officials visited in early September 2003, Miller advocated mirroring the Cuba operation.

"We understood he was sent over by the secretary of defense," DiNenna testified by telephone. DiNenna said Miller and his team were at Abu Ghraib "to take their interrogation techniques they used at Guantanamo Bay and incorporate them into Iraq."