Sergeant disciplined for speaking of abuse

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=ap/germa...

BERLIN - A U.S. Army sergeant who gave an insider's view of Abu Ghraib prison to the media has lost his security clearance and has been disciplined by the military for speaking out, he told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Sgt. Samuel Provance said that although soldiers he served with in Iraq were treating him as a pariah, he would not change a thing if given a second chance.

"My soldiers who were at Abu Ghraib are so scared now they're not even talking to me anymore — I'm like a villain....

"I knew what was being reported was not true."

....
Unlike early reports suggesting the abuses were failings by individual soldiers, Provance told the AP and other media outlets that interrogators at the prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with "the enemy."

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[Hobarticus]

1. You'll live with a clear conscience, Sergeant...

That's more than your superiors and that soulless ghoul Rumsfeld can say.

[Salviati]

2. whatchu talkin about...

Rummy hasn't got a conscience, it's hard to have one when you don't have a soul...

[maddezmom]

6. OT: but those are cute sockpuppets

[Salviati]

13. They are in fact Sifl and Olly...

of the sadly canceled "Sifl and Olly Show" fame

http://www.sifl-n-olly.com/

[salin]

3. more of the... the actions weren't the problem... the getting

caught due to people talking were the problem... ban cameras and cellphone cameras!

[maddezmom]

4. exactly....the guy puts his life and career on the line to tell the truth

so far he's lost his career...

[DEMVET-USMC]

5. Atty.Gen. Ashcroft picked documented prisoner abusers to lead Prisons

in Iraq. He picked McCotter and Sullivan himself to head up prison Affairs in Iraq. McCotter was forced to resign as head of Corrections in Utah for prisoner abuse resulting in death. Then he creates his own Private Prison Company wich is strongly critisized in statement by THE JUSTICE DEPT. no less one month prior to Ashcoft choosing him to head up Prison Affairs in Iraq. He chose Abu Ghraib as the best site to imprison people in Iraq and trained many who ended up manning that prison. "The Nation" has a great article it published regarding all this. I`m sorry I don`t know the link. Anyone who does please help out and provide it. ...Oscar

[elizsan]

7. McCotter

Couldn't find the Nation one, but here's a fairly comprehensive report of this jerk: http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking2/Exporting.ht...

[DEMVET-USMC]

9. That is the article published by "The Nation Magazine" ! Great link

provided by " elizsan ". < http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking2/Exporting.ht... >. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH ! ...Oscar

[DEMVET-USMC]

11. Thanks for the link and welcome to DU

Stick around, this is an interesting website to be sure. You seem to know what you are doing and I appreciate having you here. ...Oscar

[JoFerret]

8. Astonishing

...the sickness and hypocrisy of this man. He covers naked statues and then.....

[DEMVET-USMC]

10. AND HE CALL HIMSELF A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN, as does BUSH

These people make me so angry with thier pious selfrighteousness I just spit at thier faces in newspapers and such. It`s an involuntary response. I do have to clean it off to continue reading. ...Oscar

[9215]

12. Balzy guy here. These people who fought the bastards

need to be recognized and recompensed when this is all over.

People like Sgt. Provance give me hope.

[struggle4progress]

14. Kick