Attacks on Hoffman Report From Military Psychologists Obfuscate Detainee Abuse

Edit CounterPunch 05 Jan 2016
In particular, it is a significant omission to interpret military reports on detainee abuse without reference to one of the earliest, the Army’s Taguba Report, and the consequences for its author, Maj ... Taguba Report (May 2004) ... Taguba turned in his report, he was praised by his immediate superior ... Report and the consequences of that report on Gen....

The Heroes Who Fought Torture

Edit Real Clear Politics 11 Feb 2015
We honor and revere them ... Darby ... From there, the photos made their way up the chain of command, via a leak into the hands of New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, and eventually into U.S ... Taguba ... The Army picked General Taguba to investigate and he complied. The 2004 Taguba Report -- officially, the "Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade" -- is a model of restrained rhetoric in the service of devastating revelation....

Bush and Cheney Didn’t Have to Do It

Edit Antiwar 11 Feb 2015
From there, the photos made their way up the chain of command, via a leak into the hands of New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, and eventually into U.S ... Taguba ... The Army picked General Taguba to investigate and he complied. The 2004 Taguba Report – officially, the “Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade” – is a model of restrained rhetoric in the service of devastating revelation....

Saying No to Torture

Edit Huffington Post 10 Feb 2015
From there, the photos made their way up the chain of command, via a leak into the hands of New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh, and eventually into U.S ... Taguba ... The Army picked General Taguba to investigate and he complied. The 2004 Taguba Report -- officially, the “Article 15-6 Investigation of the 800th Military Police Brigade” -- is a model of restrained rhetoric in the service of devastating revelation....

Another Torture Report and Still No Prosecutions

Edit CounterPunch 26 Dec 2014
No one needed the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Cheney torture program to learn that lesson ... The Senate’s torture report has raised awareness of the grisly crimes committed by the Bush/Cheney Administration, and the CIA can’t escape looking like a gang of coldblooded psychopaths. But it is only the latest of dozens of studies, reports and books on the U.S ... Ten years ago a report by Maj ... Taguba reported....

The Case for Rumsfeld’s Prosecution

Edit CounterPunch 04 Apr 2014
Antonio Taguba reported that “systematic” and “sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses” were taking place at Abu Ghraib ... Taguba who in June 2008 stated, “After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,” and called for those responsible to be held to account....
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