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On the afternoon of May 6 2004, Army Major Genera Antonio M. Taguba was summone to meet, for the first time, wit Secretary of Defense Donal Rumsfeld in his Pentago conference room. Rumsfeld and hi senior staff were to testify the nex day, in televised hearings before th Senate and the House Arme Services Committees, about abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. Th previous week, revelations abou Abu Ghraib, including photograph showing prisoners stripped, abused and sexually humiliated, ha appeared on CBS and in The New Yorker. In response, Administration officials had insisted that only a few low-ranking soldiers were involved and that America did not torture prisoners. They emphasized that the Army itself had uncovered the scandal.
sy hirsh from this weeks newyorker
"Lieberman Lying about Iraq on Face The Nation"
Marines investigate antiwar activities of inactive reservists
After discharge from active duty, troops remain in the Individual Ready Reserve for some period of time. This is a mandatory period of a few years duration.
Some IRR members have been yanked out of civilian life to fight in the boy king's enduring clusterfuck. Now, the Marine Corps doesn't think the IRR members have the right to speak out against the war.
wolfowitz on charlie rose now
finally he says it. "this was always going to be a permanent war. sorry i didnt mention it sooner."
Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, argues that Fox, CNN, and MSNBC often fail to cover the most pressing stories.
In Cable News Confidential he argues that all too often, these major cable news channels fail to cover the most pressing stories.