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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (46671)	5/24/2004 8:27:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) of 793970

We never learn what was ordered or practiced because Hochschild and Hersh are too busy implying and inferring as hard as they can that the worst of the Abu Ghraib abuse was ordered. There is no evidence for it and mounting evidence against it. In so far as the argument lies in context: in the attitude taken toward the Geneva Convention; in the direction given to interrogating prisoners in Afghanistan; in the lack of attention to complaints; in the focus on the public relations aspect of this rther than cleaning it up; in so far as it lies here, it's an open and shut case. And a shameful one. In so far as someone gave direct orders to torture prisoners, I doubt anyone will ever find a trail of that. They are clearly much too bent on nailing the lowest level folk they can. And we'll, no doubt, get an officer or two or three on lack of supervision or something. The only way we'll ever know more will come from the trials, should they be open. Or from the digging that Sy Hersh and the Newsweek crew and other journalists continue to do.

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