We must first confront the Lieutenants, Captains, Majors, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels, in these soldiers' chain of command for answers before proceeding with that. Because all of them had a responsibility to supervise and protect those under their command as well as the detainees.
Absolutely... if we look at the report, we can see that a good number of senior NCOs and junior officers were interviewed..
The problem is whether giving an unlawful order is a punishable as carrying one out. It should be, but we know it often isn't.
I certainly blame the senior NCOs more because they were the ones who carried out the tasking of the officers and saw that the mission was completed.
If as has been done in the past, the CIA operators played a role, they will not come forward. The CIA will let the military folks hang out to dry and never say a word.
Well, that's where the Intelligence oversight committees would come in, as well as potential FBI probe. But I imagine these guys were pretty smart and didn't leave too many written instructions, and were probably purposefully vague about how they wanted it done, but gave a wink, wink, nudge, nudge..
And I'm sure these MPs, probably excited to be involved in what they thought might be a mission that could save some American lives, snapped to attention and yelled "three bags full, sir"..
But overall, you're dead on.. and we're likely only seeing the the initial charges... There will be pressure upon the
NCO and Officer "castes" to sacrifice a few of their own..
But that could be more difficult because it opens up some more vulnerabilities even farther up the chain.
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