Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Hack called them Perfumed Princes
But Machiavelli knew that Princes were a dangerous lot. The NY Times today has a story that we all knew would come out sooner or later.
An Army captain who reported new allegations of detainee abuse in Iraq said Tuesday that Army investigators seemed more concerned about tracking down young soldiers who reported misconduct than in following up the accusations and investigating whether higher-ranking officers knew of the abuses.The story also brings up an interesting response to his efforts to get his superior officers to respond to this problem.
The officer, Capt. Ian Fishback, said investigators from the Criminal Investigation Command and the 18th Airborne Corps inspector general had pressed him to divulge the names of two sergeants from his former battalion who also gave accounts of abuse, which were made public in a report last Friday by the group Human Rights Watch.
Captain Fishback, speaking publicly on the matter for first time, said the investigators who have questioned him in the past 10 days seemed to be less interested in individuals he identified in his chain of command who allegedly committed the abuses.
Captain Fishback said his company commander cautioned him to "remember the honor of the unit is at stake."Decent people know there is no 'honor' in protecting criminal behavior. And, in the end, it is not even good CYA.
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