A high-level outside panel reviewing American
military detention operations has concluded that leadership failures at
the highest levels of the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff and military
command in Iraq contributed to an environment in which detainees were
abused at Abu Ghraib prison and other facilities, Defense officials
said Monday. The report, set to be released Tuesday, does not
explicitly blame Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for the
misconduct or for ordering policies that condoned or encouraged it. But
the panel implicitly faults Mr. Rumsfeld, as well as his top civilian
and military aides, for not exercising sufficient oversight over a
confusing array of policies and interrogation practices at detention
centers in Cuba, Afghanistan and Iraq, officials said. [more ]
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