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March 10, 2005

Breaking: Torture Report May Exonerate DoD, Rumsfeld

Kevin McCullough has a contact at the Pentagon that says that report expected from Admiral Church in Congress this morning will find that:

  1. There was no policy that condoned torture.
  2. There was no policy that encouraged abuse.
  3. There was a lot of inconsistency across interrogation techniques. Many of those techniques were developed in the combat theater and migrated to other areas.
  4. There was a general lack of military command guidance in dealing with the CIA. He found 30 ghost detainees. One such detainee was in that status for 45 days.
  5. There were missed interrogation opportunities in part because the military failed to take account of lessons from prior conflicts.
  6. There was no guidance to CENTCOM or by CENTCOM on interrogations.
This takes the wind out of the proverbial sails of many on the left, decimating their primary argument against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Winds of Change has more on this story, as does Captain's Quarters, and GOP Bloggers, while left-leaning veteran Blue Collar Blog seems to think the report is a whitewash, while The Common Ills, which claims the L.A. Times broke this story yesterday, blasts the NY Times coverage of the story unmercifully.

Posted by Confederate Yankee at March 10, 2005 09:23 AM
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