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Monday, December 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Sympathy for Charles Graner

No one from the Bush administration has been held accountable for torture. But the guard from Abu Ghraib prison is still behind bars, and his family wants to know why.

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 07:39 AM

    Kristol's List Doesn't Include Enlistees

    Ironically, I posted a piece on my blog last night referencing Bill Kristol's call to W. for pardons of CIA thugs who waterboarded and worse as well as those who ran illegal wiretaps. My point was that Graner et al as usual in this administration are getting zero slack for their parts in the clusterhump that was A.G. prison., It's so typical of this bunch to zero in on some dude who took his orders a little too seriously and made a game of abusing prisoners. But come off it, are we dumb enough to think that Red Graner thought up this stuff or gave the orders to perpetarte any of it ? Please. Rumsfeld's memoirs should have been written from a federal pen and that's where Cheney can write his too along with Gonzo and W. while we're at it.

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