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Whistles Blown

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Three former members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division say soldiers in their battalion in Iraq routinely beat and abused prisoners in 2003 and 2004 to help gather intelligence on the insurgency and to amuse themselves … “They wanted intel … As long as no PUC’s came up dead, it happened.” He added, “We kept it to broken arms and legs.”

Fishback said he was especially bothered when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told the [US Senate] committee last year, right after the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, that the military was obeying the rules of the Geneva Convention. “I was immediately concerned that the Army was taking part in a lie to the Congress, which would have been a clear violation of the Constitution,” he said. “Interrogation techniques that violated the Geneva Convention found their way into Army systems. The problem was systemic, and it was widespread.”

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