[thoughtomator]

Another intense anti-Bush media firestorm turns out to end up at the feet of Democrats... expect this story to fade like the 9/11 commission.

[Semper Paratus]

This will expose the 'rats as the opportunistic bastards that they are.

[GaltMeister]

HA! How many of these Dim-wit Senators were shrieking and whining for Rummy's demise yesterday?

[Khuey]

What's Hillary's, Kennedy's and Byrd's EXCUSES?

[anniegetyourgun]

Lib/dems only go after chum in the water if it has Bush or Rummy or Ashcroft written on it. Who cares about the abuse, when you can undercut the administration?

[drjimmy]

From the article: "Lawson, the uncle of one of the accused soldiers, Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick, gave NewsMax.com the names of the 16 members of Congress and West Virginia's governor as well as the text of the explosive letters in a series of faxes."

I find it curious that Newsmax doesn't reprint the letters or quote from them in any way. If the letters contained "detailed information" and were "explosive," as claimed by Newsmax, why doesn't Newsmax tell us what is in those letters?

[Grampa Dave]

They also ignored their main fish wrap, the NY Slimes which had a lead article on this mess on 17 Jan 2004:

NY Slimes article re prison abuse on 17 Jan 2004


They all knew about it. Their flagship fishwrap, the NY Slimes had a key story about this on 17 Jan 2004.

They just kept it on the back burner while Hackworthless, Hersch and others spun the story and then released it in their latest attempt to electronically lynch GW and Rummy.

This story was published by the NY Slimes on 17 Jan 2004.

It was ignored by the Rat Pack Senators until they felt they could remove Rummy and hurt GW via another electronic lynching attempt.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131946/posts

Inquiry Ordered Into Reports of Prisoner Abuse [January 17, 2004 NYT Article]

New York Times ^ | January 17, 2004 | ERIC SCHMITT


Posted on 05/08/2004 9:59:57 AM PDT by risk

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January 17, 2004

Inquiry Ordered Into Reports of Prisoner Abuse
By ERIC SCHMITT

ASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — The top American commander in Iraq has ordered a criminal investigation into allegations that detainees at the sprawling Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad have been abused by American forces, military officials said Friday.

A statement by the military command in Baghdad gave no details about the scope or severity of the incidents, saying only that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the senior American officer in Iraq, had directed an inquiry into the latest in a string of reported abuses of prisoners.

"The release of specific information concerning the incidents could hinder the investigation, which is in its early stages," the statement said.

A senior Pentagon official said authorities had been alerted to the possible abuse of detainees in the past few days and were taking the allegations "very seriously."

The American-led occupation is holding thousands of suspected insurgents and criminals at Abu Ghraib, a large prison west of Baghdad that was notorious during the rule of Saddam Hussein for overcrowded cells and torture chambers.


The inquiry ordered by General Sanchez is expected to add fuel to allegations by Amnesty International and many former detainees that the American captors have treated prisoners harshly or abused them in certain cases.

Earlier this month, three Army reservists were discharged for abusing prisoners at Camp Bucca, a detention center near Basra, in southern Iraq. In late December, Brig. Gen. Ennis Whitehead III determined that the three soldiers had kicked and punched prisoners or encouraged others to do so.

Late last year, Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a battalion commander in the Fourth Infantry Division, was allowed to resign from the Army after he fired a pistol near a suspected supporter of insurgents during an interrogation in August to frighten him into giving up information about impending attacks against allied soldiers near Tikrit. Colonel West has defended his actions as necessary to protect his troops.

In addition, the Marine Corps has charged eight Marine reservists in the death of an Iraqi prisoner near Nasiriya last June. Two of the eight marines face charges of negligent homicide, while others face lesser charges, Marine officials said.

[4CJ]

Those hypocritcal *** we interrupt this message to waste your time ... we now return you to train of thought already in progress *** till they glow.

[cake_crumb]

If only we knew exactly what those letters said.

[twigs]

How very interesting that only Dem senators were notified and then his own representative who happened to be Republican. It sounds like to me that this gentleman, who was right to notify congress, was trying to make a political issue out of it by notifying representatives who were not the party in power. My guess is that he hoped to give them an issue and therefore, they would be more likely to jump on it. He miscalculated. Republicans, for all their faults, do care more about people than the Dems ever did, in spite of what they say. I also have to believe that even if he had written the White House, knowing that the letter would potentially get lost in all that mail, would have had a better chance of getting into the right hands.

[JennysCool]

Senator Byrd's office would not even accept the letter e-mailed to him on the grounds it was too long.

Hee hee hee!

[Gator113]

I am both Outraged and deeply saddened. I demand the immediate termination of each of the below listed traitors.

I further demand an investigation to determine who all they told (such as Kerry) about their secret knowledge and privileged information.

I demand an investigation to determine the exact extent and specific involvement of each of the listed Traitors.

Senators Jack Reed, Mark Dayton, Robert Byrd, Bill Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mark Pryor, Edward Kennedy, Benjamin Nelson, Hillary Clinton, Joseph Lieberman, Daniel Akaka, Paul Sarbanes, John D. Rockefeller, Governor Mark Warner...........

Each of the above War Criminals should be taken into immediate custody and held without bail until their times of trial.

I further demand that my original teeth grow back, my full head of hair returns and that I feel 19 again.

[The Wizard]

bttt

[StonyBurk]

Every time I hear about these mere politicians and their
response to Mr.Lawson--am reminded that an aid to Sen.Hatch
was dismissed when he uncovered internal memos from the
likes of Sen.Kennedy plotting Democratin jack booted campaign against our President on the pretext of the War
in Iraq. Lawson offered them the ammo --and they were waiting for a maverick retired Hack to guide this story
to 60 seconds too.

[ironman]

Correction to story. Warner is the Gov of Virginia not West Virginia.

[wildbill]

I knew the moment I saw 17 congressmen had been alerted by the whistleblower that it would be mostly Democrats and I posted that opinion on this forum.

We need to send this info all over the net and let these guys defend themselves about why they didn't:

1.Immediately go to the DOD military commanders.
2.Immediately go to the DOD secretary of defense, Rumsfeld
3.Immediately go to the media.

Lying hypotcrites!

[livius]

We've got to bump this up! This is important stuff - Rush had a caller who said that this entire war - and, in fact, all wars since Vietnam - is being fought in the media. These 16 Dems and 1 Pubbie (any Freeper in his district?) were clearly picked for their "mediability."

Killing the enemy no longer wins a war. Winning the press has become the key factor in any modern conflict. The problem is, no American can ever win our left-wing press.

[SCHROLL]

They keep saying 17 people, the list is only 15 names long. Who were the other two people?