Rumsfeld Cleared of Prisoner Abuse...

What a joke.

A review board has cleared Rumsfeld, saying that the responsibility and blame of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison is on low to mid level officers in the military. That being said, the big kill shot in the review was revealed when one Senator said:

“I can only conclude that the Defense Department is not able to assess accountability at senior levels, particularly when investigators are in the chain of command of the officials whose policies and actions they are investigating,” he added.

Now let me think this through. The Defense Department is investigating themselves, and most of the people doing the investigations worked for or under Rumsfeld and other Senior Officials... Hmmm. To me, this is damning. How can any person in their right mind, actually take these findings with any level of authenticity at all? This is a classic case of "pulling the wool over your own eyes"...

Admiral Albert T. Church, who is the Director of the Navy Staff at the Pentagon has led this investigation. His findings can be concluded with this statement:

Church said he did not focus on senior official accountability because that had been assessed in earlier investigations. But that did not satisfy some senators who believe Rumsfeld should take blame for creating an environment in which mistreatment of prisoners might appear to be tolerated.

Well wasn't that what the investigation was about? The senior officials? My God! They are blatantly lying and fabricating answers and half of the people eat it up like Peach Sorbet!

Naturally, there are some people who are not so easily fooled by red tape and bureaucracy...

“The Church report should be published in full, and the record of senior officials thoroughly examined by an independent commission of inquiry,” said Alexandra Arriage, Amnesty International’s director of government relations.

Admiral Church's report failed to decide the political debate over the White House's decision not to afford Geneva Convention rights to some of the prisoners, including Taliban fighters who fought in Afghanistan...

Remember the man who helped decide this? Mr. Alberto Gonzales? Well now he IS the US Attorney General. The man who helps write the Law of the Land. It is a terrible shame that we didn't win the battle opposing his nomination.

And the US moves another giant step towards Fascism...

The above quotes were taken from an article on MSNBC news...

A new story published today is saying that hundreds of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay are possibly going to be transferred to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen... Remember, most of these prisoners have never been charged with anything at all... No lawyers. No charges. No family...

Nearly all of the detainees are being held without charges and some have been imprisoned there for more than three years. The United States has designated them “enemy combatants” and denied them prisoner of war status, which brings certain rights under international law.

Is the US trying to hide from the abuse scandals? Are those prisons inthe Middle East safer perhaps? I doubt that. All of these investigations the US Military are conducting are a joke. More of the same... Investigating yourself rarely reveals the truth!