Seymour Hersh’s new Abu Ghraib story is up. Wotth reading, though there’s nothing fundamentally new. Lot of detail about how the investigation was conducted, and some good insight about Rummy as Mr. Micawber.
Most quotable sentence: Rumsfeld, in early 2002, attributing concerns about maltreatment of prisoners to “isolated pockets of international hyperventilation.” Well, I guess if you’re going to be flat-out wrong, you might as well be memorably flat-out wrong.
Abu Ghraib
Well, by now you’ve either seen the photos or heard about the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of American soldiers at Abu Ghraib (if not, you really should pay more attention to current events). The photos have crea…