NYT:

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 - 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.

I hope they can get to the bottom of all this. All the internal investigations seem to conveniently blame very few people and insist that the corruption didn’t go up the chain of command. It takes an outside panel to break through all the ass-covering.

More:

“The Schlesinger panel has the power to look up the civilian chain of command, and is not limited,” a Senate Republican aide said Monday. “It is a key report.”

I’m slightly more optimistic than I was this morning, but after nearly four years of corruption from the top down I’ll take more of a wait and see attitude for now.

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