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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.
By Mark Benjamin

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  • Monday, December 1, 2008 02:47 AM

    You reap what you sow

    I don't have much sympathy for Graner but it's true it is an utter disgrace that none of his superiors or anybody from the CIA has been punished. Nor, it seems to me, is there much appetite to make this happen; America has 'moved on'.

    But what is striking is the barbarity of the prison conditions under which Graner is held. What do the authorities hope to achieve by this? If this sort of casual brutality permeates the system then it's no wonder that Abu Ghraib happened and will happen again in the future.

    —David W Read David W's other letters

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