Seymour Hersch: “It’s going to get much worse”
On O’Reilly, of all places.
First of all, it’s going to get much worse. This kind of stuff was much more widespread. I can tell you just from the phone calls I’ve had in the last 24 hours, even more, there are other photos out there. There are many more photos even inside that unit. There are videotapes of stuff that you wouldn’t want to mention on national television that was done. There was a lot of problems.
There was a special women’s section. There were young boys in there. There were things done to young boys that were videotaped. It’s much worse. And the Maj. Gen. Taguba was very tough about it. He said this place was riddled with violent, awful actions against prisoners.
There were two previous investigations
The fact of the matter is it was the third investigation. There had been two other investigations.
One of them was done by a major general who was involved in Guantanamo, General Miller. And it’s very classified, but I can tell you that he was recommending exactly doing the kind of things that happened in that prison, basically. He wanted to cut the lines. He wanted to put the military intelligence in control of the prison.
In reading the transcipt I am struck that O’Reilly wasn’t combative, and said, yeah it was torture, and like the rest of us appeared to be wondering just what the hell is going on.
US soldiers rode elderly woman like a donkey in prison
U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness on her, made her crawl on all fours and rode her like a donkey, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s personal human rights envoy to Iraq said Wednesday.
A right wing friend who was wounded in Vietnam said, “that little girl didn’t act on her own. She’s a private. Privates don’t do things like that on their own. Someone told her to do it.”