Only the Grunts will be punished

The rest will be shielded and protected, in the US, RHIP.

general rejects call to penalize ex-guantanamo prison chief

Military investigators recommended that the former commander of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be reprimanded for his role in detainee mistreatment at the facility, but a top Army general rejected the conclusion, defense and congressional sources said Tuesday.

Investigators had recommended a reprimand for Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who ran the Guantanamo Bay prison until March 2004 and was sent to Iraq the next month to overhaul a dysfunctional U.S. military prison system there, shortly before the Abu Ghraib prison scandal became public.

This man oversaw two of the greatest scandals in US military penal history. Only in the Bush world does this decision make sense.

whereas schmidt and furlow recommended that miller be disciplined for his failure to monitor the interrogation, craddock rejected that conclusion on the grounds that miller did not violate u.s. "law or policy," according to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because portions of the investigation were classified.

So, abuse, and violations of the Geneva Convention DO NOT violate US Law or Policy. Not a surprise, but very disappointing.

A hat tip to Local Tint who add this.

See, this is why phrases like "self-regulation" are meaningless to me. Here's a good one:

Craddock concluded that Miller did not violate any U.S. laws or policies, the report said, according to the aide.

yet:

The investigation also found that interrogators violated the Geneva Convention and Army regulations three times at the base, the aide said.

So, once again, someone in Bushland is either criminal or woefully ignorant about the goings-on on their watch. Did this many people really come to this many positions of power by being this incompetent? Either way, we have a problem.