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Mark Benjamin, you wrote this:
"Years of revelations, however, show that the prisoner abuse started at the top, yet nobody who ordered the abuse has ever been tried or convicted of anything."
Graner testified to the opposite; Graner stated under oath that he, Lynndie England and the other merry pranksters from his National Guard unit were not under orders to do what they had done.
I fully expect that if Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had had in mind a special operation to abuse prisoners for potential intel, they wouldn't have entrusted it to a crew as woefully incompetent as Graner's pathetic unit of reservist janitors and sometime prison guards.
Mark Benjamin; please explain whose orders you think that Graner was carrying out. Otherwise, I urge to to please hold your breath, very tightly, until Don Rumsfeld sees an indictment.
