The Military, Busily Protecting Its Own (Commanders)
Pentagon Justice No officer will serve jail time for the crimes at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Sunday, September 2, 2007; B06
THE MISBEGOTTEN effort to hold military officers accountable for the notorious abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison limped to a close last week when an Army lieutenant colonel was cleared by a court-martial jury of charges that he was responsible for the mistreatment of detainees. . . . The Pentagon's moves to protect guilty commanders while targeting their subordinates have been blatant. Col. Pappas, who confessed to approving the use of dogs in interrogations, was granted immunity from prosecution. He then testified against the soldiers who handled the dogs. Gen. Miller, who, according to sworn testimony by others, recommended that dogs be used at Abu Ghraib and sent "tiger teams" of Guantanamo interrogators to Iraq to train Abu Ghraib personnel, was allowed to retire a year ago. A general rejected the recommendation of a Pentagon investigator that Gen. Miller be san…