Reply #80: Which is why I advocate using the SENATE REPORT as a blueprint,

[MADem]

rather than playing the media game of distraction, like so many are doing.

The ACLU has the records, as I have said--over a hundred thousand pages worth. They've posted them online. DOD has them, too, but they're harder to access. They're public records, of everything from NJPs (article fifteens) for peripheral types, to courts martials, fines and jail time, and OTH discharges.

The Senate Report names names--like Rumsfeld, Gonzales, and others. These pictures everyone thinks mean something (and are really simply a revictimization of those who were abused) show us people who have already been punished, with their victims. It might make some feel good to look at them and harrumph, but it doesn't get Rumsfeld out of his featherbed and into a cell, now, does it?

I'd like to see open hearings by a joint session of the Armed Services Committee or the Judiciary Committee--either or. Let's get to the bottom of who ordered this shit, and how it was allowed to go on for so long. The more time we spend farting around eyeballing pictures of victims and already-punished perps is time wasted that could be used to hold people accountable. After all, Congress only works a few months out of the year. They should take that Senate Report and use it to craft a damn witness list, for starters.