Abu Ghraib

Exposed: The Anatomy of a Torture Scandal
"United States does not torture and we value human rights" Bush June 25 2997, at the Presidential Scholars Program

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNetJune 21, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/54647/

Not long before Lynndie England ever stepped foot in Iraq, long before she became the poster-child for torture, she was a whistleblower at Pilgrim's Pride chicken factory in Moorefield, W.Va. -- a notion that doesn't quite fit with her current image.

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With Amy Goodman

* Seymour Hersh Reveals Rumsfeld Misled Congress over Abu Ghraib; How Gen.
Taguba was Forced to Retire over his Critical Abu Ghraib Report; and the
Site of Another Secret U.S. Prison (Mauritania) *

Over three years ago, Seymour Hersh exposed the torture and abuse at Abu
Ghraib in an article largely based on a leaked report by Major General
Antonio Taguba. Now Taguba has spoken to Hersh in his first interview since
being forced to retire. Taguba reveals that he was blocked from
investigating who ordered the abuse at Abu Ghraib and how more pictures and
video exist showing the torture.

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