http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08IMAG.html?ex=1085030660&ei=1&en=71b351e2bbdca68
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The only reason the AbuGhraib prison abuse has become public is that one of the accused soldier's relatives went to Col. Hackworth and they directed him to the right people to talk to at 60 Minutes. One can only surmise that when CBS looked like it was going to sit on the story, somebody got this fellow over to Seymour Hersh.
"The Army had the opportunity for this not to come out, not to be on 60 Minutes," he said. "But the Army decided to prosecute those six G.I.'s because they thought me and my family were a bunch of poor, dirt people who could not do anything about it. But unfortunately, that was not the case."
The article says that the soldier's uncle sent letters to 17 members of Congress with virtually no response and now here they all are pretending to be surprised! Who are they? Who are the 17 members of Congress who knew about prison abuses and did nothing?