Pentagon Leaders Faulted in Prisoner Abuse-Officials
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A high-level panel investigating  U.S. military detention operations has concluded that top  Pentagon officials and the military command in Iraq contributed  to an environment in which detainees were abused at Abu Ghraib  prison in Iraq, a defense official said on Tuesday.
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A military officer and former member of a Pentagon unit that decided to indefinitely imprison some detainees from Afghanistan and Iraq has said in a sworn affidavit that the process of reviewing their cases was "fundamentally flawed" and that the results were influenced by pressure from superiors...
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An Army probe reports that the abuse scandal was not just caused by a few rogue soldiers but resulted from failures of leadership rising to the highest command levels in Iraq, senior defense officials said.
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Members of a US special operations task, involved in Abu Ghraib abuse scandal in Iraq, threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the abuses, said a US government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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A report released last week places a share of the responsibility for the mistreatment of inmates at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison on the shoulders of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
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BALTIMORE - The wife of an Army reservist sentenced to prison for abusing prisoners in Iraq said she knows her husband was wrong, but she also blames higher-ranking officials who &quot;sit behind the curtains&quot; for the abuse.
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In tracing responsibility for the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, a panel drew a line that extended to Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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U.S. military intelligence soldiers  and civilian contractors working with them were directly  involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail to  a greater extent than previously acknowledged, an Army report  released on Wednesday found.
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Amid allegations he fostered a climate that led to the prison abuse scandal, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday that the military&#39;s mistreatment of detainees was not as bad as what terrorists have done.
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Top Pentagon officials and the  military command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which  prisoners were abused at Abu Ghraib prison, according to a  report released on Tuesday by high-level panel investigating  the military detentions.
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Four U.S. troops serving on an elite special operations task force have been disciplined for abusing prisoners in Iraq, including unauthorized use of Taser electric-shock weapons, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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Four US troops serving on an elite special operations task force have been disciplined for abusing prisoners in Iraq, including unauthorized use of Taser electric-shock weapons, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - A lack of foresight and oversight led to the abuse of prisoners at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of US military police and intelligence interrogators last year, according to a Defense Department report released Tuesday.
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The actual abuses at Abu Ghraib may have been the work of a few GIs, but excerpts of a report obtained exclusively by NBC News found failures of leadership from the prison
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's most senior civilian and military officials share a portion of blame for creating conditions that led to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, according to a new report.    The report, by a commission appointed by Defense Secretary Donald H...
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The Pentagon's most senior civilian and military officials share a portion of blame for creating conditions that led to the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, according to a new report.
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MANNHEIM, Germany - A military judge hearing evidence about the alleged abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison pressed the U.S. government Monday to speed up its investigation, warning that delays could derail the case against at least one of the accused soldiers...