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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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  • Sunday, November 30, 2008 07:58 PM

    fishfry

    Unless his lt. and cpt. were morons, they had to know what was going on if they were doing there jobs at all. Clearly if Graner was the ringleader then his immediate superiors were so negligent as to be criminal in their dereliction of duties. It seems clear to me that the real ringleader were in fact the CIA operatives who came in and set all this up. But still, as a former officer, my greatest contempt is for the lt. and cpt. who were the supervisors. They were the ones who could have bucked the system more effectively. Total weasels, copping out on their oath.

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