Prison-Abuse Panel Is Third in Bush's War on Terrorism - NYT

THE INVESTIGATION
Prison-Abuse Panel Is Third in Bush's War on Terrorism
By PHILIP SHENON

Published: May 8, 2004


WASHINGTON, May 7 â?? Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's announcement on Friday that an independent review board would examine the abuse of Iraqi prisoners means that three blue-ribbon panels will be investigating the Bush administration's conduct of what it describes as the war on terrorism, including the war in Iraq.

In his testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr. Rumsfeld said he would appoint "several senior former officials who are being asked to examine the pace, the breadth, the thoroughness" of the existing military investigations into the abuse "and to determine whether additional investigations or studies need to be initiated."

The Defense Department later identified the officials as James R. Schlesinger, defense secretary under President Richard M. Nixon; Harold Brown, defense secretary under President Jimmy Carter; Tillie Fowler, a Republican former congresswoman from Florida, and Gen. Charles A. Horner, the retired commander of the 1991 Persian Gulf air war.

Mr. Rumsfeld said the panel was "being asked to report their findings within 45 days of taking up their duties."


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Lets really count the serious big ones

9/11 commission and all that that entails
CIA operative outing
withholding information intentionally from congress
prisoner abuses guantanamo, afghanistan, iraq and elsewhere
congressional leader ethics (computer hacking etc)
manipulating intelligence for political gain
intentionally sabotaging united nations effectiveness

and thats just starting with what we know, and does not take into account dimwits lack of speaking ability on the diplomatic front, or the pre-occupation with what 'god' tells him.
Feel free to add more that I overlooked.

(Non-military) The GOP lied and intimidated a member of congress to get Bush's Medicare bill to pass.

-Lori