Abu Ghraib and Responsibility

Sad to say, in this scandal that keeps mutating, the answer is still being asked even though copious evidence long ago filled in the answer with such familiar, diminished names as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and the two back-slap-happy Georges, Bush and Tenet.

Gary Myers, a lawyer for one of the dozen-odd enlisted men and women charged as a result of the Abu Ghraib scandal, said in 2004 that the military was turning low-level soldiers into scapegoats for “a monumental failure of leadership.” The real story, he said, was not the enlisted, but “the manner in which the intelligence community forced them into this position” by demanding that they “soften up” suspects for interrogation. Well-documented subsequent disclosures proved Myers right.

Read the full FAQ, "What Was the Chain of Responsibility for Abuse and Torture at Abu Ghraib?"

See Also:

• Abu Ghraib: The Torture Photos
• What Is Abu Ghraib?
• Obama's Abu Ghraib Flip-Flop
• Obama's Flip-Flop: Protecting Soldiers or Suppressing Evidence? You Decide.