President George W. Bush administration is under the scope of the public eye in the US and the world. In the past weeks, the scandal of treatment of prisoners in the war in Iraq has shocked the world. Many dispicting pictures have surface of American troops abusing and humiliating Iraq prisoners. In this research paper. I will present and describe the issues at hand and how this the scandal will affect public administration.
The US and Britain have control of the Iraqi government. Many tactis used to interrogate are in question. The public what to know if the the government had any role in the new tactics used for interrogation. Hersh from the New Yorker has reported an descriptive story of the sacndal involving Iraqi prisoners abuse by US troops. Hersh (2004) “The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focused
on the hunt for Al Qaeda, to the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq. Rumsfeld’s decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of йlite combat units, and hurt America’s prospects