[lbo-talk] still more on why accountability is dead

[Eubulides]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/28/AR2007082800359.html
Abu Ghraib Officer Cleared of Detainee Abuse
Verdict Means No One in Army's Upper Ranks Will Be Imprisoned for the 2003 
Mistreatment in Iraq

By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 29, 2007; Page A05
[snip]

The verdict means that no officer will serve prison time in connection with the 
mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib, leaving the harshest punishment for 
low-ranking soldiers who were shown in the infamous photographs that emerged in 
early 2004.