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...Smith trial, the defense will point to statements made by Army Col. Thomas Pappas, the senior military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib, who has said he had approval from Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, a former commandant of Guantanamo who helped establish interrogation rules at Abu Ghraib. According to Pappas, Miller approved the use of dogs to extract information from detainees. In a statement given under oath on Jan. 25 after he was granted immunity from prosecution, Col. Pappas said he personally approved the use of dogs for a handful of prisoners. That approval, he said, came just days before...
...Pappas' s account appears to directly contradict statements to the Senate Armed Services Committee by Maj. Gen. Miller, who has said that that he authorized dogs to be used only for perimeter security, not for questioning prisoners. Pappas himself will be called to testify at the Smith trial, which could last up to two weeks, but Maj. Gen. Miller last month invoked his right not to incriminate himself and said he would not appear in court...
...stark contradiction between two senior Army officers - Col. Pappas and Maj. Gen. Miller - has upset lawmakers on Capitol Hill. On Tuesday, Sen. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced at a hearing that he expected to have Maj. Gen. Miller testify before his panel at an unspecified date. Last month, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who also sits on the committee, made an even more pointed comment, saying, "Shame on us if we allow a story to go forward that is not true and the... dog handlers are paying the price...
...make it easier to oblige Maj. Gen. Miller to appear before the committee, both chairman Warner and Carl Levin of Michigan, its top Democrat, recently asked the Army to delay Maj. Gen. Miller's planned retirement. As for Pappas, the Army reprimanded and fined him last May for the abuses at Abu Ghraib, citing his dereliction of duty...
...crucially invested in the film-stock status quo), the most popular live-action digital movie in history, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, won no awards, not even one for technical achievement. The year's boldest, most innovative digital experiment, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City, got no nominations...