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"Explosive" Senate Torture Report Reveals
What We've Already Known For Three And A Half Years
Torture came from the top, as we reported in October
2005 - when will the prosecutions begin?
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 A
newly released Senate Armed Services Committee report is garnering
much media attention today, however it only confirms what we
first reported in 2005 - that high-ranking Bush officials were
responsible for torture of detainees and tried to shift the
blame to low-ranking army officers.
The report is "a condemnation of both the
Bush administration's interrogation policies and of senior administration
officials who attempted to shift the blame for abuse -- such
as that seen at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and Afghanistan
-- to low ranking soldiers," said
Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who led the investigation.
It names former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
as approving an initial December 2002 memo that was taken as
an approval for torture methods in U.S. run prisons worldwide.
Procedures approved in the memo were adopted in
Iraq in a memo issued almost one year later in September 2003
by the Iraq war commander, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.
The report
(PDF), which has been described by some media sources as "explosive",
reveals nothing new, however, and confirms what we've already
known for over three and a half years.
In October 2005 former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski
appeared on the Alex Jones Show to make these very revelations.
We subsequently produced
an article detailing her claims and also the fact
that she was deliberately kept out of the loop and scapegoated
to protect higher ups.
Karpinski was the only general punished in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq. Her Army Reserve unit was in charge of the prison
compound when Iraqi detainees were physically abused and sexually
humiliated by military police and intelligence soldiers in the
fall of 2003.
(Article continues below)
 Karpinski
had previously admitted that rather than being an isolated incident
under her command, the abuses were, "the result of conflicting
orders and confused standards extending from the military commanders
in Iraq all the way to the summit of civilian leadership in
Washington."
Spun as the actions of "a few bad apples," the Abu
Ghraib torture program was sanctioned from the very top.
Karpinski identified the masterminds of the torture policy
as occupying the highest rungs of the Bush administration.
"The orders came right from the top, filtered
down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of
the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding
them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these
practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo
bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller
visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then
he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo
Bay to Iraq as well." Karpinski said.
Karpinski also stated in 2005 that even though innocent detainees
had been deemed of no further Intel use and were recommended
to be released by their interrogators, the higher uppers read
the riot act and started a pattern whereby no one was to be
released and innocent people were kept locked up without trial
or charges.
She went on to speak about the direct links to Bush himself:
"We can trace back now, through documents that were released
through court order, back to the original document, the one
that Alberto Gonzales reviewed and discussed with the President
of the United States, a departure from the Geneva Convention.
These are not prisoners, these are terrorists and these techniques
will be more effective." She said.
Though the newly released Senate Armed Services Committee report
has taken six months to complete, it's findings were already
public knowledge and had even previously appeared in a
PBS documentary.
Enough with the reports and investigations, when will the prosecutions
begin?
If the Obama administration gets its way they will never take
place.
Upon last week's release of the torture memos preceding the
new Senate report, Obama’s right-hand man, chief of staff
Rahm Emanuel, told
ABC News that top Bush administration officials
“should not be prosecuted either and that’s not
the place that we go.”
In addition, Obama’s statement that accompanied the release
of the torture memos stated, “In releasing these memos,
it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties
relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department
of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.”
So no retribution for the people who ordered the torture, and
no retribution to the people who carried it out, thus setting
the precedent that future administrations are free to order
torture - safe in the knowledge that they will face no consequences
whatsoever.
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