{"id":2026,"date":"2004-06-14T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2004-06-14T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T19:46:00","slug":"just-following-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/06\/14\/15\/46\/just-following-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Following Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/ny-bc-nj--prisonerabuse-law0614jun14,0,3018369.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire\">The lawyer for a New Jersey-born reservist charged in the Iraq prisoner abuse case hopes to interview current and former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison to bolster his contention that senior military officers approved the harsh treatment &#8230; Bergrin has filed a motion seeking to have the case dismissed, citing &#8220;improper command influence&#8221; that extended all the way to President Bush himself &#8230; Bergrin maintains that military investigators were under such pressure from higher-ups to place blame in the case that they could not objectively evaluate Davis&#8217; conduct at Abu Ghraib.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004_06_06_WeekArchive.php#'108700401297979985'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer for a New Jersey-born reservist charged in the Iraq prisoner abuse case hopes to interview current and former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison to bolster his contention that senior military officers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}