CIA accused of link to Iraq prison torture

A US Army Reserve general whose soldiers were photographed as they abused Iraqi prisoners said she knew nothing about the abuse until weeks after it occurred and that she was "sickened" by the pictures. Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski said she suspected the reservists were acting with the encouragement of military intelligence units that ran the special cell block used for interrogation and that CIA employees often joined in the interrogations.

General Karpinski's allegations are supported by a still-classified US Army report on prison conditions in Iraq documenting many of the worst abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, including the sexual humiliation of prisoners.

The magazine The New Yorker says in its latest issue that the report, by Major-General Antonio Taguba, found that military police at the prison were urged by officers and CIA agents to "set physical and mental conditions for favourable interrogation of witnesses". According to the magazine, the army report offered accounts of gruesome abuse that included the sexual assault of an Iraqi detainee with a chemical light stick or broomstick.

In a phone interview in which she offered her first public comments about the episode, General Karpinski, who is still the commanding officer of the 800th Military Police Brigade, said the special high-security cell block at Abu Ghraib had been under the direct control of army intelligence officers, not the reservists under her command.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/02/1083436475631.html

But Karpinski has to share the responsibility.

I believe they had a hand in this one, too.

This CIA I am sure knew the type person they could use to set it up.I am sure they were put in the part of the prison they were going to control. I hope it will not be just get the low man and let the people who set it up off but we all know how that works. This group in DC are worse than most and the Buck stops no place at the top with Bush and CO.

They screwed up when Clinton gave the order to get bin Laden; they screwed up with the chatter and 9/11; they didn't give Wilson the support he needed to fight off the Bush Administration's ab/use of the bad yellowcake report; and now this.

Who exactly is running the CIA and why is he still in charge?

Every time we get a Bush in office this is what we get

They opened their eyes