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• Monday, December 1, 2008 09:57 AM

  Sympathy for the scapegoat

  "According to court documents, Graner beat his former wife, Staci Morris, and dragged her by the hair across a room.

  A former civilian prison guard, he'd also been accused in a federal lawsuit of assaulting an inmate at Pennsylvania's State Correctional Institution-Greene in 1998 and putting a razor blade in the inmate's mashed potatoes."

  [...]

  "But [Lynndie] England refused to give him up. In March 2003, she went with Graner and another soldier to Virginia Beach. During the trip, Graner took pictures of himself having anal sex with England. He also photographed her placing her nipple in the ear of the other soldier, who was passed out in a hotel room. Soon, it became their new game: Whenever Graner asked her to, England would strike a pose.

  "Everything they did, he took a picture of," says Hardy, her lawyer. "I asked Lynndie why she let him. She said, 'Guys like that. I just wanted to make him happy.' She was like a little plaything for him. The sexual stuff, the way he put her in those positions, that was his way of saying, 'Let's see what I can make you do.'" "

  http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/lynndie-england-4

  "Graner put the strap around his [a mentally ill prisoner's] neck, led him out of the cell, and handed the strap to England. Then he took a picture — and sent the jpeg to his family in Pennsylvania.

  "Look what I made Lynndie do," Graner wrote in the email. "

  http://www.marieclaire.com/world/news/lynndie-england-5

  —Phio Gistic Read Phio Gistic's other letters
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