Officer not guilty in Abu Ghraid case

Reuters:

A court-martial on Tuesday found a U.S. Army officer not guilty of responsibility for the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail but convicted him for disobeying an order not to discuss the investigation.

Army Lt. Col. Steven Jordan, the only U.S. military officer to face court-martial in the Abu Ghraib case, had denied the charges against him and argued he was being made a scapegoat for the scandal, which provoked worldwide outrage.

The military court at Fort Meade, Maryland, just outside Washington, convicted Jordan of willfully disobeying a superior commissioned officer, said Army spokeswoman Joanna Hawkins.

But Jordan was acquitted of being responsible for cruel treatment of detainees.

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This is probably the end of the Abu Ghraid cases and it means that the media got the big story very wrong. It turns out it really was a bunch of low ranking enlisted troops acting out rather than any military program as many in the media tried to claim. This should be considered one more manufactured scandal by some in the media who wanted to use it as an excuse to attack the war effort and the administration. They will probably still be giving themselves prizes for their bias on this story but we should never forget the damage they tried to do to the war effort by taking advantage of the damage done by a few schmucks and blowing it into something much bigger.

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