US military handled Gitmo chief with kid gloves

[NVMojo]

WASHINGTON: Military investigators who looked into FBI accounts of Guantanamo Bay detainee abuse urged that a former commander of the prison for foreign terrorism suspects be reprimanded, but US Southern Command declined to do so, sources familiar with the probe said on Tuesday.

The probe also faulted a female interrogator for smearing fake menstrual fluid on a prisoner, but said the matter should not be pursued because it happened too long ago, the sources said.

The report on the investigation, announced in January by Miami-based Southern Command which oversees the Guantanamo base in Cuba, was due to be released at a hearing on Wednesday of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The investigators recommended that Army Maj Gen Geoffrey Miller, the former Guantanamo commander, receive a formal reprimand, which would have made him the highest-ranking military officer to be punished over detainee mistreatment, the sources said.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_14-7-2005_pg4_14

[wli]

1. no

We need to pump this up and get them to point at who gave them the orders. This was not their idea.

[merwin]

2. If it was another country doing this shit to us, we would be outraged.

So how is it OK for us to do that to them?

[classysassy]

3. The sword

someone has to fall on the sword for Bush,no military person beyond the rank of sgt.How about Sgt Bilko?.