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...Janis Karpinski, who paid too little attention to her rogue company. "My assessment," said Lieut. General Keith Alexander, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, "is there was a complete breakdown of discipline on the MP side." He was seconded on that point by Major General Antonio Taguba, author of the scathing Army inquiry, who bluntly defined the problem as a "failure of leadership; lack of discipline; no training whatsoever; and no supervision...
COVER: Photomontage by Arthur Hochstein BUSH, BROOKS KRAFT; WITMER SISTERS, MICHAEL SEARS-POOL--GETTY IMAGES; MYERS, JASON REED--REUTERS; IRAQI WOMAN, KHAMPHA BOUAPHANH--ABACA PRESS; BREMER, ROBERTO SCHMIDT--AFP/GETTY IMAGES; PRISONER, AP; SOLDIER, AKRAM SALEH--REUTERS; TAGUBA, ALEX WONG--GETTY IMAGES; HUMVEE, ALI ABBAS--EPA; BERG, AP; ENGLAND, AP; RUMSFELD, JIM MACMILLAN...
...command got badly muddled. Army regulations limit the intelligence-gathering role of MPs to passive collection, but members of the 372nd found themselves fielding requests from military intelligence (MI) officers, who were in charge of part of the prison. In his investigation of the abuses, Major General Antonio Taguba found that MPs were "actively requested" by MI officers and private contractors to "set physical and mental conditions for favorable interrogation of witnesses." Taguba took testimony supporting this from several of those who were eventually charged, including Specialist Sabrina Harman, 26, and Sergeant Javal Davis, 26. In a sworn statement, Harman...
...within a couple of hours." Around the time military officials launched a criminal investigation, Frederick's e-mails started to include qualms about his Abu Ghraib duties. In January he wrote, "I questioned some of the things that I saw." And not every MP agreed to go along. The Taguba report says Specialist Jason Kennel declined to do MI's dirty work without formal paperwork...
...memo also contained four tips on how to plug the leaks of explosive prison-abuse tales. The first is "NOT to go to Fox News to read or obtain a copy" of the Taguba report. The American official in Baghdad received the email on Friday from the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Policy team, marked to "MAL POL ALL POLICY," with a note telling employees that those who have read the Taguba report on the web should "CALL POLICY IT SECURITY IMMEDIATELY...