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I suppose I can forgive your citation to The UK Guardian as a source of legitimate news, but I cannot accept your stubbron stupidity on the question I posed to Mark Benjamin: DID ANYONE [senior military, senior White House staff] "ORDER," AS BENJAMIN SUGGESTED, THE ACTIONS FOR WHICH GRANER WAS EXPOSED AND THEN CONVICTED -- THE ABU GHRAIB ABUSES?"
So far, you've supplied nothing. I don't expect that you and I will agree on much of anything, and we certainly won't agree on how the CIA handled some high-priority detainees. But none of that had anything to do with Graner & Co.
You, Cabdriver, and Mark Benjamin need to be a whole lot more careful with your words. Please don't bother me with allegations as to CIA techniques, or memos dealing with Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, or renditions or anything else. Graner wasn't CIA, and he wasn't ever at Gitmo, and he was never in charge of the highest-level detainees. Let's stick to the question I posed. Mark Benjamin said pointedly that Graner was acting under orders. And so I have challenged him. Whose orders? What orders? It's really a simple question, calling for a direct answer.
