Jesus wept

"The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself,'" said the MP in charge of Tier 1A -- part of the prison's "hard site" -- of Abu Ghraib's night shift, Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., reports the Washington Post:

Prisoners posed in three of the most infamous photographs of abuse to come out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not being softened up for interrogation by intelligence officers but instead were being punished for criminal acts or the amusement of their jailers, according to previously secret documents obtained by The Washington Post.

In the newly obtained documents, the MPs who gave statements describe Graner and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II as the leaders and organizers of the abuse. Frederick was the enlisted man in charge of Tier 1A and worked as a prison guard in Virginia.

One military police officer said in a sworn statement that civilian and military intelligence officers frequently visited Tier 1A at night, spiriting detainees away for questioning out of sight of the MPs inside a "wood hut" behind the prison building. The documents also offer the first detailed account of how the abuse scandal unraveled

Attorneys for several of the charged MPs said their clients were acting at the behest of military intelligence officers at the prison to soften up the detainees for interrogation sessions . . .
"They were following orders," said Danielle Guebert, an attorney for England. "The orders came from military intelligence."

Whether punishment for bad behavior or softening up for interrogation sessions -- and military justice will soon ferret it all out -- it's not your mother's Christianity.

Comments

[Mark Wallace]

Though you correctly quote it at the top, your conclusion seems to have left something out. It should have read "Whether punishment for bad behavior or softening up for interrogation sessions *or providing amusement for their jailers*," I presume.

[Sissy Willis]

So's your old man. :)

[Mark Wallace]

lol

(Truly the best riposte I've had from anyone in a long time.)