Mr. President, what did you know and when did you know it?

I'm sure it has to do with the circles I run in but the military (current and former) personnel I communicate with are, to an individual, outraged by the prisoner abuses and allegations of torture. The New York Times now reports that even (at least some of) the interrogators are stand-up guys.

Here's the latest news about the lying liars they work for:

Unit Says It Gave Earlier Warning of Abuse in Iraq
By ANDREA ELLIOTT

Published: June 14, 2004

FRANKFURT, June 13 — Beginning in November, a small unit of interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison began reporting allegations of prisoner abuse, including the beatings of five blindfolded Iraqi generals, in internal documents sent to senior officers, according to interviews with military personnel who worked in the prison.

The disclosure of the documents raises new questions about whether senior officers in Iraq were alerted about serious abuses at the prison before January. Top military officials have said they only learned about abuses then, after a soldier came forward with photographs of the abuse.

"We were reporting it long before this mess came out," said one of several military intelligence soldiers interviewed in Germany and the United States who asked not to be identified for fear they would jeopardize their careers.

The complete story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/international/middleeast/14ABUS.html