Abu Ghraib Reports: Failings, top to bottom

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The Pentagon's failure to anticipate the virulence and duration of the anti-American insurgency left it unprepared to detain prisoners in anything close to the numbers (7,000) that crammed Abu Ghraib.

Caught flat-footed by the deadly insurgent attacks, commanders pressured interrogators to extract useful information from detainees.
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What happened, both reports agree, was that aggressive techniques well outside Army norms were approved for use post-9/11 on al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Naval Base and in Afghanistan. Those techniques, including the infliction of pain, fear and deprivation in ways forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, migrated without clear guidelines to Abu Ghraib, an Army prison which had very different prisoners and very poor leadership.
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http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/9518931.htm


Mainstream press again pulls its punches, conveniently forgetting the torture memos.

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2. It's just sloppy thinking to blame Israel for Bush's policy failures. eom