Will this ever come to a conclusion? Now that the victory of the AWCB's has made prison-level accountability for anything at that place go no higher than some junior enlisted folks, it seems that the only pressure might come through previous reports and civil litigation.

Two Defense Department intelligence officials reported observing brutal treatment of Iraqi insurgents captured in Baghdad in June, several weeks after disclosures of abuses at Abu Ghraib prison created a worldwide uproar, according to a memorandum disclosed Tuesday.

The memorandum, written by the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency to a senior Pentagon official, said that when the two members of his agency objected to the treatment, they were threatened and told to keep quiet by other military interrogators.

The memorandum said the Defense Intelligence Agency officials had seen prisoners being brought in to a detention center with burn marks on their backs and complaining about sore kidneys.

The document was disclosed by the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained it as part of a cache of papers from a civil lawsuit seeking to discover the extent of abuse of prisoners by the military.

Other memorandums disclosed this week, including some released by the A.C.L.U., showed that the interrogation and detention system at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had drawn strong objections from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which argued that the coercive techniques used there were unnecessary and produced unreliable information.

And what's with threatening DoD officials? I know that there must have been a considerable amount of frustration on the part of some of these "interregators", and that they felt justified by Chickenhawk Gonzales' memos, but threatening DoD folks. Talk about cutting off your nose etc...

I feel bad for some of the enlisted folks who are getting toasted, but if they had been thinking about what they were doing i.e. maintained their Situation Awareness, they might not have done it at all. The real shame is that Rumsfeld gets to keep his job as Head Ostrich and Gonzales gets a nomination to be the nations Top Law Enforcement guy. It's the application of Leona Helmsley Axiom: Laws are for Little People. Too bad no one is there to excercise the Leona Helmsley Corallary: Until You Get Caught.