http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...
I was wondering when someone was going to make note of the next likely step, since the release of the CIA memos. I think the clock was ticking for the true story to come out about the convicted soldiers from Abu Graib. Lets not forget Gen Janis Karpinski the general that was also scapegoated, although I'm not sure what to make of her shoplifting charge.
Attorney General Holder has his work cut out for him. I am not sure however what portion of this if any falls under his jurisdiction, becuase all parties I think were trialed and convicted in military courts.
Bush et. al. f@#k up a lot of careers here.
Tim Reid in Washington
Prison guards jailed for abusing inmates at the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq are planning to appeal against their convictions on the ground that recently released CIA torture memos prove that they were scapegoats for the Bush Administration.
The photographs of prisoner abuse at the Baghdad jail in 2004 sparked worldwide outrage but the previous administration, from President Bush down, blamed the incident on a few low-ranking "bad apples" who were acting on their own.
The decision by President Obama to release the memos showed that the harsh interrogation tactics were approved and authorised at the highest levels of the White House.
Some of the guards who were convicted of abuse want to return to court and argue that the previous administration sanctioned the abuse but withheld its role from their trials.
The latest reaction to the released memos came as it emerged that the two psychologists hired by the CIA to craft the techniques that were used on terror suspects were paid $1,000 (£673) a day. Neither had carried out nor overseen an interrogation.