General Miller denies suggesting use of dogs on people at Abu Ghraib

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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3887256.html

FORT MEADE, MD. - Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller, becoming the highest-ranking commander to testify in court about abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, told a military trial Wednesday that he never advocated the use of dogs in the interrogation of detainees.

Miller in 2003 was sent by the Pentagon to Iraq to recommend changes in interrogation and intelligence-gathering procedures at Baghdad-area prisons, spending two days at Abu Ghraib. But he insisted that he never suggested the use of dogs as part of interrogations.

Miller long ago emerged as a key figure in the abuse scandal, even though he has not been accused of wrongdoing. Now-infamous abuses of Iraqi detainees, captured in photographs, began occurring just weeks after Miller's mission recommended changes to Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who at the time was commander of U.S. forces in Iraq.

Miller had invoked his right against self-incrimination in refusing to testify at an earlier abuse-related trial, spurring interest in his testimony Wednesday.

[jeff30997]

1. Miller the butcher!

Scumbag!:grr:

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. usually people who take the 5th in trial are guilty

but I bet they let this war criminal go free.

[gratuitous]

3. So he won't testify about some things, but denies other things

"No sir, I never suggested using dogs as part of interrogations."

Miller's notes bear him out: Stress positions, beatings, sleep deprivation, hooking up electrodes, suffocation, water boarding, but no dogs. I hope that clears everything up! Thank you for your service, Gen. Miller!

[ecoalex]

4. Orders came from the top, Gonsales , shrub They need to be prosecuted