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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. Rumsfelds decision embittered the American intelligence community, damaged the effectiveness of йlite combat units, and hurt Americas prospects in the war on terror.”
Hersh ( 2004) “According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagons operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfelds long-standing desire to wrest control of Americas clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A.”
Hersh (2004) “Millers concept, as it emerged in recent Senate hearings, was to “Gitmoize” the prison system in Iraq–to make it more focused
on interrogation. He also briefed military commanders in Iraq on the interrogation methods used in Cuba–methods that could, with special approval, include sleep deprivation, exposure to extremes of cold and heat, and placing prisoners in “stress positions” for agonizing lengths of time. (The Bush Administration had unilaterally declared Al Qaeda and other captured members of international terrorist networks to be illegal combatants, and not eligible for the protection of the Geneva Conventions.”
Hersh (2004) “Rumsfeld and Cambone went a step further, however: they expanded the scope of the sap, bringing its unconventional methods to Abu Ghraib. The commandos were to operate in Iraq as they had in Afghanistan. The male prisoners could be treated roughly, and exposed to sexual humiliation.”
The article continues to clarify that the US government knew about the abuses and encouarage the tactic in order to psychologiacally demoralized the Iraqi prisoners in order to divulge any information about Al qaeda or any other terrorist groups. Hersh (2004) continues ” These are private affairs and remain in private.” The Patai book, an academic told me, was “the bible of the neocons on Arab behavior.” In their discussions, he said, two themes emerged–“one, that Arabs only understand force and, two, that the biggest weakness of Arabs is shame and humiliation The abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed on January 13th, when Joseph Darby, a young military policeman assigned to Abu Ghraib, reported the wrongdoing to the Armys Criminal Investigations Division. He also turned over a CD full of photographs. Within three days, a report made its way to Donald Rumsfeld, who informed President Bush.” It clearly states the Bush administration knew about the abuses. Upon the scandal being public, President Bush denied he knew anything about the incidents and focus blame on Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld. The inquiry presented a dilemma for the Pentagon. The C.I.D. had to be allowed to continue, the former intelligence official said. “You cant cover it up. You have to prosecute these guys for being off the reservation. But how do you prosecute them when they were covered by the special-access program? So you hope that maybe itll go away.” The Pentagons attitude last January, he said, was “Somebody got caught with some photos. Whats the big deal? Take care of it.” Rumsfelds explanation to the White House, the official added, was reassuring: “Weve got a glitch in the program. Well prosecute it. The cover story was that some kids got out of control.””
Furthermore, Congress conducted an investigation bringing forth Donald Rumsfeld