Dupe, please remove!

[Spazito]

Efforts to determine who orchestrated the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison may be complicated by the ways in which many military intelligence officials, covert U.S. agents and civilian contractors obscured their identities.



Intelligence officers, agents and interrogators at the prison did not wear name tags or display insignia indicating rank, according to testimony at an April 7 hearing for Sgt. Javal Davis, one of seven military police officers accused of abuse. Dressed in desert camouflage uniforms or casual clothes, military and civilian intelligence operatives blended in with other soldiers, and some of them responded coyly when MPs asked their names, says Paul Bergrin, a Newark, N.J., lawyer who represents Davis.


In an interview, Bergrin quoted Davis, 26, as saying that when he asked some of the mysterious agents and interrogators for their names, they would say, " 'I'm Special Agent John Doe,' or 'I'm Special Agent in Charge James Bond.' "

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But sign-in logs were kept haphazardly at Abu Ghraib. Without such documentation or photos, defense attorneys and military investigators could have trouble finding evidence - besides someone's memory - to link individual intelligence officers and interrogators to specific acts of abuse.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=1&u=/usatoday/interrogatorshididentities

[CWebster]

1. So, they knew what they were doing was wrong

The question then becomes, who held the door open for them? They didn't just stroll in the door with a dog, a whip and a hood.

[Spazito]

2. Oops, this is a dupe, here is the original thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x587638