Abu Ghraib Verdict Irks Rights Groups (AP)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Abu Ghraib Verdict Irks Rights Groups

Wednesday August 29, 2007 9:46 AM

By DAVID DISHNEAU

Associated Press Writer

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) - An Army officer's acquittal on
charges of failing to control soldiers who abused Abu
Ghraib prisoners cuts short a trail of accountability that
could lead much higher, human rights groups say.

A military court on Tuesday acquitted Lt. Col. Steven L.
Jordan of three charges related to the mistreatment of
detainees at the U.S.-run prison in Iraq in the fall of 2003.

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The verdict effectively ends the military's investigation
of a scandal that surfaced with the release of pictures of
U.S. soldiers grinning while detainees, some of them naked,
were held on leashes or in painful and humiliating positions.

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Hina Shamsi, deputy director of New York-based Human
Rights First, said an “accountability gap” remains between
the convicted soldiers and high-ranking military and
government officials who sanctioned harsh interrogation
techniques.

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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6882757,00.html

[Solly Mack]

1. it's the "few bad apples" lie

IF it's just a "few bad apples", then America doesn't sanction, implement and put into law(codify), torture.

It's not just a case of the military shaping that lie...though it is most definitely the American military "justice" system helping to enable that lie... the lie that it is just "a few bad apples" is being given safe quarter throughout government. And far too many people in America are willing to embrace the lie instead of dealing with the truth - the US government tortures.

[Lucinda]

2. I must be getting tired because I'm stuck at how lame the headline is

The best word the author could come up with was "Irks?"
Do we have one of those little banging your head against the wall emoticons?