Friday, June 20, 2008
Joe Galloway looks at the Tale of Tony Taguba
A capable and honorable man, totally out of place in the Bushovik world. Regardless, he did his best in the investigation of Abu Ghraib and Galloway gives him his due.
By regulation — and no doubt by the design of those who appointed him — Taguba could not investigate any uniformed or civilian official whose rank was higher than his own two stars.We can only learn what evil the Bushoviks have done, we know they will face no penalty for it.
Taguba and his investigators sifted and probed and assessed the blame as high as they were permitted to go. Taguba believed — no, he KNEW — that the responsibility for this outrage went much higher. He knew it reached to the office of then Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and likely beyond to the lawyers who served President George W. Bush and perhaps even to the president himself.
But the brass, military and civilian, wanted Taguba and those who ran 16 other Army investigations of the Abu Ghraib scandal only to get to the bottom of the situation, not to the top.
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