Seymour Hersh strikes again. He revisits Abu Ghraib by getting an interview with the man who investigated it, Gen. Antonio Taguba. Most of the damage reflects on Donald Rumsfeld…no surprise…but it ties into a lot of other things. I think I am going to have spend next week writing about the outsourcing of intelligence assets, the privatization of our military, and related subjects. It’s all coming to a head.
Read the whole thing.
I can’t read this at 11pm on Saturday night! I feel pathetic enough hanging out here…(I’m kidding)
Actually, I had no idea that the New Yorker was so totally online. I will read this tomorrow while patio-blogging.
Thanks. Really.
yeah, it’s long. But it is good history.
Understanding the history will be important when its finally time for the mammoth task of repairing the damage for the future. Here’s the quote that jumped out at me:
You might want to take a quick look Susie Dow’s commentaries over @ ePMedia.
Best legal analysis I’ve read is Peter Singer’s. [War, Profits, and the Vacuum of Law: Privatized Military Firms and International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 2004]
. . I think I am going to have spend next week writing . .
Given what you’ve already researched, and adding that new material, with any luck you’ll be publishing a book by Christmas. 🙂
on Hersh’s piece yesterday. The diary, titled, “Excellent and Depressing New Seymour Hersh Article,” is still on the rec list.
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The comment thread is as long as Hersh’s article, but leevank digests the important parts with one quotable exception that’s caught in the comments.
Gen. Taguba is acquitted a hero, and the evidence backing that assertion is provided.