Ex-commander talks at Abu Ghraib hearing

[brooklynite]

FORT MEADE, Md. - An Army Reserve officer accused of ignoring abuses of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison was a daily visitor to the "hard site," where some detainees were stripped naked as an interrogation technique, a former military police commander testified Wednesday.

Capt. Donald Reese's testimony supported government allegations that Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan, as director of the prison's interrogation center, knew about the abuse and lied about it.

Reese testified on the third day of Jordan's Article 32 investigation, the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing. The hearing to determine whether Jordan, the highest-ranking soldier charged in the scandal, should be court-martialed for any of the 12 charges he faces. He could face up to 42 years in prison if convicted.

Reese was commander of the 372nd Military Police Company, which guarded the hard site at Abu Ghraib in the autumn of 2003, when most of the abuses documented in photographs seen around the world occurred.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_re_us/abu_ghraib_jordan_2

Is bringing a box of donuts to your indictment prescribed in the Uniform Code of Military Justice?

[Big_Mike]

1. This is only one of the fuckheads who have shamed our nation.

This slime needs to be slammed hard, demoted to E1, and given hard labor (it will extend his life when he burns off that blubber). The rest of the "leadership team" need to be tried and convicted as well. The troopies don't fuck up to that extent without a complete failure of leadership.

He looks to be a prime example.