Sy Hersh got the interview with General Anthony Taguba, the general who initially investigated abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Here he is describing a conversation he had with General John Abizaid:
I wasn’t angry about what he said but disappointed that he would say that to me. I’d been in the Army thirty-two years by then, and it was the first time that I thought I was in the Mafia.
June 17, 2007 at 12:51 pm
When the ethical senior staff retire because they will not cave to the administration’s demands, what ends up floating to the top is typically not the “cream”, if you get my drift.