Pentagon Refused Lawyer As Prison Adviser

Posted on Sat, May. 08, 2004

Pentagon Refused Lawyer As Prison Adviser

MATT KELLEY

Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials rejected an Army plan last year to send an experienced military lawyer - who is also a Republican member of Congress - to help oversee the unit blamed for prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib complex outside Baghdad.

That left the prison complex, which holds up to 7,000 Iraqis, without an onsite lawyer to guide interrogations and treatment of prisoners.

The top lawyer for the 800th Military Police Brigade, the Army unit in charge of detainees at Abu Ghraib, later came under fire in an Army report about the abuse for being ineffective and "unwilling to accept responsibility for any of his actions."

The rejected lawyer, Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., and other experts say having had a lawyer at the prison might have prevented or at least mitigated the beatings, sexual humiliation and other abuse detailed in photographs and the Army probe.

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Oh, but it's a Republican lawyer. Now I understand.

just pinned bird-colonel wings on Congressman Boyer
at the White House just last week.

Edit: Correct spelling "Buyer"

not only did they know what was going on, not only did they know they were engaged in criminal acts, they also wanted to make sure that nobody was in a position to make them stop. They thought torture was a good idea; they liked it.

SCHINDLER'S LIST



Ralph Fiennes plays a chilling Amon Goeth in the movie, and plays him to the point that some
people have had trouble distinguishing him from the real thing.

Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindler Jews, famously said, "When you saw Göeth, you saw
death."



GENERAL MYERS TRIBUTE TO AMON GOETH