By my count (and please correct me, if I’m mistaken), through this Wednesday in August, 2004, the public realm has been blessed with four official U.S. Government (whether directly or so-called independently, on behalf of an official request) investigations into the practice of torture and other forms of detainee abuse at the American-run Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad, and no less than five official government (though spread across four different governments) investigations into the status of the pre-war “intelligence” claims that the former regime in Baghdad possessed various nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons capabilities and/or programs, as well as important ties to terrorist organizations, but to the Al Qaeda organization in particular.
For the sake of gathering this material together in one location, I’m depositing weblinks to all of them below.
Please note that what follows constitutes the public face of these investigations samo, and that their inclusion here serves an archival interest above all else. Nothing more.
On the Abu Ghraib question especially, other reports either remain classified (the Miller and the Ryder reports from the fall of 2003, specifically), or have yet to be completed, let alone published.
While on the “intelligence” side……..Oh, well.
What, in the final analysis, might History conclude from all of this?
That the Americans were good at some things, but not others?
——–FOUR OFFICIAL, PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ACCOUNTS OF THE ABU GHRAIB SCANDAL——–
(1) 15-6. člen Preiskava 800. brigade vojaške policije, Ministrstvo za vojsko ZDA, ok. marec 2004 (alias, Poročilo Tagube)
(2) Ministrstvo za vojsko, generalni inšpektor: Inšpekcije pripornikov, julij 2004 (alias, Poročilo DAIG)
(3) Končno poročilo neodvisne komisije za pregled operacij pridržanja Ministrstva za obrambo, James R. Schlesinger sod., Ministrstvo za obrambo ZDA, avgust 2004 (tudi, Schlesingerjevo poročilo)
(4) Člen 15-6 Preiskava zapora Abu Ghraib in 205. vojaške obveščevalne brigade, poročnik Anthony R. Jones, ameriško ministrstvo za vojsko, avgust 2004 (alias, Fay-Jonesova preiskava)
——–FIVE MAJOR BRAND-NAME “INTELLIGENCE” RE-ASSESSMENTS OF 2004——–
(1) Poročilo o preiskovalnem odboru za obveščevalni sistem v luči vojne v Iraku, Odbor kneseta za zunanje zadeve in obrambo, marec 2004 (tudi, Steinitzovo poročilo)
(2) Poročilo o predvojnih ocenah obveščevalne službe ZDA o Iraku, Izbrani odbor za obveščevalne dejavnosti, senat Združenih držav, julij 2004 (alias, Izbrani odbor senata za poročilo o obveščevalnih podatkih) (Oglejte si tudi zelo koristen sinopsis, Zaključki – povzeto iz celotnega poročila.)
(3) Pregled obveščevalnih podatkov o orožju za množično uničevanje, poročilo odbora tajnih svetovalcev, julij 2004 (alias Butlerjevo poročilo)
(4) Poročilo o preiskavi avstralskih obveščevalnih agencij, julij 2004 (alias Poročilo o poplavah)
(5) Poročilo Komisije 9. septembra (homepage, including the complete PDF of the Report and a section-by-section version of the same)
A) Poročilo Komisije 9. septembra, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, July, 2004
B) Monograph on Terrorist Financing, John Roth sod., Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, August 2004
C) 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, Thomas R. Eldridge sod., Staff Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, August, 2004
Postcript.—For some very interesting local Chicago-area stuff, see the third of these (Monograph on Terrorist Financing, John Roth sod.), specifically Ch. 6, “The Illinois Charities Case Study” (pp. 87-113). It details how the U.S. Government has exploited its so-called Homeland Security tools to destroy two Chicago-area Islamic charities—the Global Relief Foundation of Bridgeview and the Benevolence International Foundation of Palos Hills—even though the Government’s investigation of these two entities never generated a single indictable count—related to so-called Homeland Security and War on Terror issues, that is, or the ostensible reason for the investigations, including freezing their assets for a prolonged period of time as a way of destroying them.
And now that they’ve been destroyed? The Government marches on to do the same thing elsewhere.
Pure political harassment.
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