The Pentagon has promoted or nominated for promotion two senior Army officers who oversaw or advised detention and interrogation operations in Iraq during the height of the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal.
The Army promoted Maj. Gen. Walter Wodjakowski, the former deputy commander of American forces in Iraq, earlier this month to be the head the Army's infantry training school at Fort Benning, Ga. It has also nominated Col. Marc Warren, the top military lawyer for the American command in Baghdad at the time, to be a one-star, or brigadier, general.
A third officer, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, the former top intelligence officer in Iraq, took command earlier this year of the Army's intelligence center at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.
An independent inquiry led by a former defense secretary, James R. Schlesinger, last August faulted all three officers for their actions in Iraq, but a subsequent review by the Army's inspector general exonerated all of them, clearing the way for their advancement, military officials said.
If the White House supports Colonel Warren's promotion, as is expected, the Senate would still need to approve it. In their new, more visible and prestigious assignments, General Wodjakowski and General Fast remain at their two-star rank, and therefore do not require Senate confirmation.
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