Washington Post:

MANNHEIM, Germany, Aug. 22 — A memo issued last summer by a U.S. Army military intelligence officer appealed for suggestions on how to extract information from prisoners in Iraq and called for tougher means of getting intelligence.

“The gloves are coming off gentleman regarding these detainees,” said the memo, which carried the signature of Capt. William Ponce Jr. The source of the memo, who refused to be identified, said it was sent by the intelligence staff of Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who was then commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, to all concerned military intelligence personnel in Iraq.

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We’ve been hearing over and over, “The corruption went no higher than these seven part timers. These awful, awful people- they were out of control, unsupervised, untrained… but at least it was just these seven and not their superior officers. Make that 24. 24 intelligence officers… but the orders didn’t come higher than those 24 intelligence officers, no siree. Their superiors had nothing to do with it. Oh… uh… that came from Sanchez’s office? Er… uh…”

I’m tired of the military investigating itself. It’s all about covering their own asses, not finding the truth.