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| England's Attorney Pressing for Testimony About Intel Unit's Role |
| 2004-08-08 |
| From The Los Angeles Times The hearing into whether Army Lynndie England should be court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib scandal was abruptly postponed late Saturday afternoon after defense attorneys argued that another prison guard should be allowed to testify that military intelligence officers sponsored and carried out much of the abuse at the Iraqi prison. England's lawyers also asked to present ... two officers who ran the military intelligence operation at Abu Ghraib. The defense hopes to show that the torture and humiliation of detainees was condoned under the orders of military interrogators. .... On Friday, defense attorney Richard A. Hernandez of Denver announced that his team had learned that another military policeman, Sgt. Kenneth A. Davis, had given the government a sworn statement tying some of the intelligence unit members to the abuse. ... In his statement to government investigators in May, Davis said Spc. Armin Cruz and Spc. Roman Krol, two intelligence unit members, openly abused prisoners yet never were held accountable. He said they permitted naked detainees to be dragged across the floor in a humiliating episode last fall, according to portions of the statement read by Hernandez. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #1 I am under the impression that if intelligence officials were that involved, she would not have been allowed in the area at all, much less allowed a camera to make her own porn movies with. |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2004-08-08 9:29:29 PM |