Key Bush Gitmo Advisors Still on Job at Pentagon

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Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three senior Pentagon officials tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay remain on the job despite President Barack Obama's order to reverse course at the Navy prison in Cuba.

The Bush appointees' ongoing influence over one of Obama's first and most sensitive national security decisions raises questions by critics -- within and outside the Pentagon -- about whether those who championed the controversial Guantanamo military court system can now be depended upon to help shut it down.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/05/washington/AP-Guantanamo-Pentagon-Holdovers.html?_r=1

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1. Just rented the movie "Gitmo" and was very enlightening re MILLER ....

and good effort by the woman who headed the camp:-

Col. Janis Karpinski,the Former Head of Abu Ghraib -- essentially a whistleblower,

but she didn't sign a "non-disclosure" agreement --- think that's what they call it.

She does her best to tell all.

And says Rumsfeld and Miller came together -- but no one knew Miller was there.

"Gitmoize" ....

Summary:
Karpinski, the highest-ranking officer demoted in connection with the torture scandal, speaks out about what happened at the Abu Ghraib prison. She discusses:

• How the military hid “ghost detainees” from the International Red Cross in violation of international law;
• Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller calling for the Gitmoization of Abu Ghraib and for prisoners to be “treated like dogs”;
• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s secret memos on interrogation policies that hung on the prison’s walls;
• The military’s use of private (and possibly Israeli) interrogators;
• Her dealings with the International Red Cross;
• Why she feels, as a female general, she has been scapegoated for a scandal that has left the military and political leadership unscathed; and
• Calls for Donald Rumsfeld, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Alberto Gonzalez and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to be held accountable for what happened.