If this LA Times article is saying what I think it says, while you can expect more people to be implicated in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, the chances that the charges will spread to military commanders in the Pentagon are
slim to none (emphasis mine):
A long-awaited report on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal will implicate about two dozen military intelligence soldiers and civilian contractors in the intimidation and sexual humiliation of Iraq war prisoners,
but will not suggest wrongdoing by military brass outside the prison, senior Defense officials said Wednesday.
The report will recommend disciplinary action against two senior prison officers: the colonel in charge of the military intelligence brigade that oversaw interrogations at the compound near Baghdad and a general in charge of a reserve military police brigade in charge of the prison.
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"The report is going to say responsibility for Abu Ghraib stops at the brigade level," a senior official said.
The scandal has drawn international condemnation and questions about U.S. interrogation and detention policies. It also has cast a legal cloud over U.S. moves to begin trials for detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Defense attorneys in those cases, which begin next week, may submit evidence of abuse to question the legitimacy of confessions and other government claims.
But one senior Defense official said the new report, by Army Maj. Gen. George R. Fay, will make clear when it is released next week that "no one in Washington said, 'Stack people on top of each other, naked.' " That image was supplied by one of the graphic photographs that helped fuel the scandal.
So the question now becomes will we see ANY accountability from the Pentagon for one of the gravest violations of human rights our army has ever done? Will we ever see the right thing done with resignations by those responsible for the actions of those under their command?
Fat chance! All the more reason to elect John Kerry in November. It's time to stop letting the brass get passes and start throwing them out on their asses.