Gitmo General Lied to Congress

[Spence]

An Army general who has been criticized for his role in the treatment of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has contradicted his sworn congressional testimony about contacts with senior Pentagon officials.

Gen. Geoffrey Miller told the Senate Armed Services Committee in May 2004 that he had only filed a report on a recent visit to Abu Ghraib, and did not talk to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld or his top aides about the fact-finding trip.

But in a recorded statement to attorneys three months later, Miller said he gave two of Rumsfeld's most senior aides - then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary for Intelligence Steve Cambone - a briefing on his visit and his subsequent recommendations.

"Following our return in the fall, I gave an outbrief to both Dr. Wolfowitz and Secretary Cambone," Miller said in the Aug. 21, 2004, statement to lawyers for guards accused of prisoner abuse, a transcript of which was obtained by the Chicago Tribune.

"I went over the report that we had developed and gave them a briefing on the intelligence activities, recommendations, and some recommendations on detention operations," Miller added.

Specific interrogation techniques, he said, were not discussed.

Miller's statement about the meeting, if true, suggests that officials at the very top of the Pentagon may have been more involved in monitoring activities at the prison than previously disclosed. Abu Ghraib was later at the center of a scandal surrounding prisoner abuse, which has led to punishments for soldiers.

Miller, Cambone and Wolfowitz, who is now acting director of the World Bank, each declined to respond to written questions about Miller's contradictory statements. Rumsfeld, Cambone, Wolfowitz and Miller have denied knowledge of prisoner abuse.

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[sherry the moron]

gheez,

i say we close gitmo & drop all those prisoners off on a street corner in the " Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. "

[whitskins]

Originally Posted by sherry

gheez,

i say we close gitmo & drop all those prisoners off on a street corner in the " Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. "

That's an embarrassment to the term "spin".

[CNYSkinFan]

Originally Posted by whitskins

That's an embarrassment to the term "spin".

Shery is an embarassment to the term "poster".

[MoeRedskins]

Originally Posted by CNYSkinFan

Shery is an embarassment to the term "poster".

At least she posted her opinion and not another article.

[GibbsRules!]

Originally Posted by LoveJoeHateDan

At least she posted her opinion and not another article.

Stand by, articles will soon follow...

[Minnesota Mike]

Originally Posted by LoveJoeHateDan

At least she posted her opinion and not another article.

Baby steps...

[Axegrinder]

Quit bashing sherry.
She's established herself and we all understand her m.o..
There's no need kick the horse.

One one hand,I would hope that the Pentagon was aware and abreast of the situations on the ground,anything less would be incompetence.

On the other hand,they just prove what we Democrats already know.

[sherry the moron]

Originally Posted by Axegrinder

Quit bashing sherry.
She's established herself and we all understand her m.o..
There's no need kick the horse.

One one hand,I would hope that the Pentagon was aware and abreast of the situations on the ground,anything less would be incompetence.

On the other hand,they just prove what we Democrats already know.

Axegrinder : hi . thank you.
but, it's NO problem.
it's a forum

[sherry the moron]

Originally Posted by GibbsRules!

Stand by, articles will soon follow...

i'm workin' on it . . .