US defense chiefs denied knowledge of Abu Ghraib abuse

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The WH made accertions of non involvement and a few bad apples and the Press just let them get away with it!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070616/pl_afp/usiraqmilitaryprison_070616234741

US defense chiefs denied knowledge of Abu Ghraib abuse

Sat Jun 16, 7:47 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - ..........

Taguba said that he described to Rumsfeld what he termed the "torture" of "a naked detainee lying on the wet floor, handcuffed, with an interrogator shoving things up his rectum," the magazine reported.

He said that all high-level officials had avoided scrutiny while the jail keepers were tried in courts-martial.

"From what I knew, troops just don't take it upon themselves to initiate what they did without any form of knowledge of the higher-ups," Taguba told the New Yorker, adding that his orders were to investigate the military police only and not their superiors.

"These (military police) troops were not that creative," he said. "Somebody was giving them guidance, but I was legally prevented from further investigation into higher authority," he told the magazine.