Making Hegseth's Confirmation Hearing Abu Ghraib Again!

Today was the beginning of SecDef Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearings. They focused on sexual assault allegations & his divorces in the 2010s. Even his mother despises Pete for his conduct during his second divorce! Scandalous, but I was more interested in his reported coverup of the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, which nobody is likely to bring up.

Abu Ghraib turns out to be a timely topic. After 15 years of delays, an American jury was finally seated to hear arguments in 2024. They deadlocked in May, triggering a mistrial. A second jury awarded $42M from the contractor CECI to three plaintiffs in November 2024.

Either somebody wanted this case wrapped up before Team Trump came in, or the globalist side of the Jewish Civil War saw an opportunity to use the trial for a political weapon. It didn’t make any mainstream headlines, but perhaps in Yiddish circles.

A quick recap of Abu Ghraib:

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In the report by Major General Antonio M. Taguba regarding the alleged acts of brutality, abuse, and torture at the Enemy Prisoner of War facility at Abu Ghraib and other Enemy Prisoner of War Camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, Taguba said, "'Specifically I suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Lt. Col. Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary actions ..."

Pappas was in charge of the 205th Intelligence Brigade. He was given nonjudicial punishments until the scandal broke, then he was given legal immunity in return for giving testimony against his subordinate, Lt. Col. Jordan. Jordan faced numerous charges of brutality, torture, and obstructing justice, but ultimately was found guilty only of discussing the case with outsiders. He later claimed to have been the scapegoat.

Stephanowicz was prohibited by his superior at CACI from ever deploying to Iraq because of demonstrated sociopathy. He was deployed regardless “as a screener” but was reclassified as an interrogator immediately upon arrival. He was never criminally charged, repeatedly boasted of secret employment with the CIA and apparently fled the United States in the aftermath.

John Israel does not exist.

Israel trains US assassination squads in Iraq

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8 December 2003

Israeli advisers are helping train US special forces in aggressive counter-insurgency operations in Iraq, including the use of assassination squads against guerrilla leaders, US intelligence and military sources said yesterday.

The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has sent urban warfare specialists to Fort Bragg in North Carolina, the home of US special forces, and according to two sources, Israeli military "consultants" have also visited Iraq.

US forces in Iraq's Sunni triangle have already begun to use tactics that echo Israeli operations in the occupied territories, sealing off centres of resistance with razor wire and razing buildings from where attacks have been launched against US troops.

Sounds like a war crime against civilians.

But the secret war in Iraq is about to get much tougher, in the hope of suppressing the Ba'athist-led insurgency ahead of next November's presidential elections.

"This is basically an assassination programme. That is what is being conceptualised here. This is a hunter-killer team," said a former senior US intelligence official, who added that he feared the new tactics and enhanced cooperation with Israel would only inflame a volatile situation in the Middle East.

"It is bonkers, insane. Here we are - we're already being compared to Sharon in the Arab world, and we've just confirmed it by bringing in the Israelis and setting up assassination teams."

"They are being trained by Israelis in Fort Bragg," a well-informed intelligence source in Washington said.

"Some Israelis went to Iraq as well, not to do training, but for providing consultations."

The consultants' visit to Iraq was confirmed by another US source who was in contact with American officials there.

I have a guess who knows. No, not Pete, but I’ll get to Dan Senor.

Pete Hegseth Offered Defense of Abu Ghraib, Attacked Media Coverage of Torture Prison

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By J.D. Wolf, 26 December 2024

In 2003, United States military and intelligence personal at Abu Ghraib prison, which held up to 7,000 prisoners, conducted "acts of brutality and purposeless sadism" according to "the executive summary of the final report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations" published by The New York Times. Photos of the abuse, which will not be published here, show military personnel sitting on top of naked prisoners, naked prisoners stacked on top of each other, prisoners on leashes, prisoners tied to their beds, prisoners with hoods over their heads, in other words, in varying forms of torture.

Also being forced to dress in womens’ clothing, which is not a torture historically typical of the United States.

In a 2007 interview on C-SPAN, Pete Hegseth, the former Army National Guard officer and Fox News host nominated to become Trump's Secretary of Defense, offered a defense of the United States’ actions at Abu Ghraib prison while dismissing the incident as an "absolute exception" to military conduct during the Iraq War.

To be clear, Hegseth was not Fox News until 2016. At the time he was Vets for Freedom…

…a Jewish NGO front. Sitting on their board of directors was Republican megadonor Paul Singer and a reptiloid named Dan Senor, among other heavyweight bankers. I’ll come back to them.

Although he labeled the abuses—a horrific episode involving the torture and humiliation of prisoners—as “a shame” and “a problem,” Hegseth downplayed their significance, criticizing the media for covering the story extensively.

Far from an exception as Hegseth claimed, the independent panel stated that 300 allegations of abuse took place across Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, with 155 of those being investigated and 66 of those being substantiated. This wasn't a "absolute exception" as Hegseth stated.

Sixty-six allegations, eh? Not sixty-five or sixty-seven? Funny how just one number can recast that scandal from a national disgrace “that just happened” to Illuminati infighting. Were Abu Ghraib’s tortures publicized by globalist Jews in order to thwart their rival Zionist Jews’ Greater Israel Project? I take a stab in the dark… and hit something…

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Resistance’s 2006 victory over Israel defeated America’s West Asia project: Hezbollah leader

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13 July 2023

The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement says the resistance front managed to thwart America’s so-called Greater Middle East project through its victory in the 2006 war on Lebanon waged by the Israeli regime.

Speaking at a televised address on Wednesday, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said the 2006 war was a key part of America’s so-called Greater Middle East project, which he said aimed to solidify Israeli dominance over the region under American influence.

According to Press TV, Nasrallah made the address on the 17th anniversary of the 2006 Israeli war on Lebanon.

He said the victory of the resistance front in 2006 also foiled the so-called Greater Israel Project and put the regime on the decline.

Nasrallah said the 2006 war’s goal was to crush the Lebanese resistance and to subjugate Lebanon, but such goals were never realized and Israelis and the Americans both admitted the failure of the war on Lebanon on several occasions.

He said the 2006 victory marked a defining moment in Lebanon's history, shaping its destiny in the region for the years to come, adding that the victory also laid the groundwork for putting up deterrence that continues to exist to this day and has led to the erosion of Israeli deterrence.

Lebanon is adjacent to Syria, not Iraq, but even so there’s definitely something here.

Commenting on the recent desecration of a copy of the holy Qur'an in Sweden, the Hezbollah leader said the act of sacrilege was committed with the goal of "sowing division between Muslims and Christians."

The perpetrator of the heinous act of profanity "is in liaison with [the Israeli spy agency] Mossad and sought to create division between" the people of the two faiths, Nasrallah stated.

The Christian clergy, however, stepped in and condemned the sacrilege, thus contributing much towards the prevention of sedition, he noted.

Kudos to those Christians. There’s also a history of the globalists using Muslims as a proxy against the Zionists.

I remember that “flushing the Koran” scandal. I remember most of my fellow Americans wished their toilets were powerful enough to flush a paperback book, too. They didn’t proceed from that thought to “this story must be fake because nobody’s toilet is that powerful”, but halfway was still better than their Current Year cognitive efforts. “Some men used to be women!”

Meanwhile, I remember San Francisco mandating such low-powered toilets instead, that their sewer system clogged because there wasn’t enough liquid to float the solids downhill.

Nasrallah, meanwhile, said Israel had suffered defeat in its recent operation against the city of Jenin and its refugee camp in the northern part of the occupied West Bank.

The more things change, the more ((they)) stay the same.

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That report was released in 2004, yet during his 2007 interview on C-SPAN, Hegseth not only characterized Abu Ghraib as an exception, he also criticized the The New York Times for dedicating, as he claimed, 32 consecutive days of front page coverage, a move Hegseth cited as evidence that the media “magnified” the torture prison scandal. Hegseth also suggested The New York Times had ulterior motives behind the coverage…

"It's unfortunate the way it was magnified. I think the media gets beat over the head too much, but that, you know, 32 straight days in the front page of The New York Times is emphasizing something for a reason beyond just exposing a story. So I think we've done ourselves a lot of damage and we haven't done enough talking about the good things that American service men and women have been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Translating from hamster-ese, “My rivals are doing a hatchet job against me but I’m not allowed to say who” and “we’re the good guys here”.

"...but you compare it with the way that American service men are found when they're captured, or you compare it with the way that we know that we would be treated or I would be treated if I was captured by Al-Qaeda, it's certainly wouldn't be stripped and piled which is horrible. I mean horrific. I don't, you know, nobody wants, nobody's apologizing for that in anyway, but compare that with beheadings and torture or drills in the head and the types of things that Al-Qaeda does, it doesn't make it any better. But you have to look at the fight we're in and we have to do everything we can to win it."

“It” being… what, the prison? Or Greater Israel?

While asserting that the U.S. military should not “stoop to the level” of its enemies, Hegseth, who was previously a guard at Guantanamo Bay, stopped short of a full condemnation…

He was never at Abu Ghraib himself, so his defense of the CACI contractors was merely talking tough in front of a camera as a major NGO frontman. Although I recall there were Gitmo accusations of prisoner abuse, too, at about the same time as Hegseth, 2004.

More about Vets For Freedom from wikipedia.

Vets for Freedom is an American political advocacy organization founded in 2006 by veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with connections to Republican Party leaders. The group was initially founded as a 527 group.

During the 2006 election, the group supported Senator Joseph Lieberman, who ran for reelection as an independent after losing the Democratic nomination. The group spent about $4.1 million on campaign ads in the 2008 election, mostly on ads promoting the "surge" of U.S. troops in the Iraq War in 2007.

Vets for Freedom is an American political advocacy organization founded in 2006 by veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars, with connections to Republican Party leaders. The group was initially founded as a 527 group.

During the 2006 election, the group supported Senator Joseph Lieberman, who ran for reelection as an independent after losing the Democratic nomination. The group spent about $4.1 million on campaign ads in the 2008 election, mostly on ads promoting the "surge" of U.S. troops in the Iraq War in 2007.

Sounds like a typical NGO, created as a last-gasp political action committee for some guy I barely recall. Who even cared about him?

The group was founded by, among others, Wade Zirkle, David Bellavia, and Owen West.

Zirkle was Lehman Brothers. Bellavia won the Medal of Honor in Kosovo for hand-to-hand combat in a room full of improvised explosives… heroism sounds legit, no “early life” loyalties, except that MoH was a 2019 upgrade from the silver star he was originally awarded. Owen spent 19 years at Goldman Sachs, known CFR, and now sits on the board of Clearview AI making facial recognition systems.

This was roughly the time the hysteria about “bitter military veterans” began circling through Elite Leftist circles. I wonder if these gatekeeping efforts were a cause or effect?

One faceman, two banksters…

The National Journal reported that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the third-richest man in America, had made a significant donation to Vets For Freedom.

Three banksters…

Among the Vets for Freedom advisors are Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol and former Iraqi Coalition Provisional Spokesman Dan Senor.

I’m pretty sure Kristol is on the Kagan team, while Adelson is a Zionist coach. I wonder if like rock bands, Vets For ((Freedom)) had a falling out over artistic differences?

And on that note, we go now to his actual confirmation’s pregame…

Key senators receive Pete Hegseth's FBI background check days out from confirmation hearing

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By Julie Tsirkin, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Ryan Nobles, Scott Wong and Courtney Kube, 10 January 2025

GunnerQ added content.

With that many names in the byline, why not #MeToo.

An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the report, just days ahead of his Tuesday confirmation hearing.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the panel’s chairman, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking member, are the only senators who have the report, the two sources said.

The 25-member committee does not necessarily need to review Hegseth’s background check to proceed with the nomination hearing, but two committee sources familiar with the process said it was “unprecedented” that the report took this long to get to the panel’s top members.

When the FBI says “you don’t need to know” to the Senate Armed Services Committee…

Democrats on the committee that NBC News spoke with have been frustrated by the delay, and suggest the FBI report may not be thorough, particularly for a Cabinet pick that has been entangled in controversy.

Yeah, controversy. That.

Hegseth’s attorney Tim Parlatore told NBC News that their understanding is that the FBI’s background check concluded earlier this week. He said that Hegseth’s team had not been given anything to review by the FBI and that they didn’t expect to get a copy before the hearing.

Parlatore made headlines when he represented Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher against a very ugly Social Justice swarming. I covered it on my old blog…

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…looks like he made some friends in the process.

There has been intense media scrutiny of why Hegseth was forced to step down from leading two military organizations, Vets for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America. A Dec. 1 story in the New Yorker detailed allegations of Hegseth’s repeated intoxication at work events and other inappropriate behavior, in addition to financial mismanagement. Hegseth has denied these allegations.

Financial mismanagement, when half your board of directors is a Lehman Bro… hmm.

But key leaders who had worked at the organizations said that as of this week and as recently as Friday afternoon, the FBI had not contacted them to participate in a Hegseth background check.

In the case of Veterans for Freedom, Republican megadonor Paul Singer, one of the top financial backers of the group, had ordered a financial audit, a forensic accounting, at the organization in 2009 after it ran out of money under Hegseth’s leadership, according to a former Veterans for Freedom employee. The audit took months, revealed roughly a half-million dollars in debt, and copies were given to, among others, Singer and two Veterans for Freedom advisers, political adviser Dan Senor and political commentator Margaret Hoover.

Singer was a never-Trump Republican, I recall.

After the audit, Singer asked Brian Wise, head of another group aiding Blue and Gold Star families, Military Families United, to take over Veterans for Freedom and incorporate it into his group, the former employee said. Hegseth has not responded publicly to the audit.

That was an effort to retake control of the organization.

There was no immediate response to an email sent to Elliott Investment Management, the firm Singer founded and where Senor is a partner. Wise said he had not been contacted by the FBI and declined to answer any questions about Hegseth’s nomination.

Who is Dan Senor? USA’s Prince of Iraq for Gulf War 1.

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Daniel Samuel Senor (born November 6, 1971) is an American columnist, writer, and political adviser. He was chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and senior foreign policy adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the 2012 election campaign. A frequent news commentator and contributor to The Wall Street Journal, he is co-author of the book Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (2009) and The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World (2023).

An Israeli was heading the US-installed Iraqi Authority?

Senor brought to [Mitt Romney’s 2012] campaign a network of close ties to Israel, including his sister Wendy Singer, who runs the Jerusalem office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

“Connected” doesn’t begin to describe his family.

From 2001 to 2003, he was an investment banker at the Carlyle Group.

In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq and during the fighting, Senor was a Pentagon and White House adviser based in Doha, Qatar, at U.S. Central Command Forward; he was subsequently based in Kuwait, working with General Jay Garner during the final days of the invasion and was in southern Iraq when the Saddam Hussein regime fell.

He went straight from “investment banking” to leading Gulf War 1. In hindsight, Gulf War 1 was the Greater Israel project after all. No wonder “we” backstabbed Hussein.

Senor remained in Iraq until the summer of 2004. His 15 months working for the CPA from Baghdad made him one of the longest-serving American civilians in Iraq at the time.

Summer of LOVE, baby!

In April 2006, Senor married Campbell Brown, editor in chief of The 74, a nonprofit education news website, who was then weekend anchor of Today on NBC and host of Campbell Brown, formerly on CNN.

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While in Iraq in 2004 for a story on the Abu Ghraib prison complex, she met Dan Senor, chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Ms. Brown asked him out and they married in 2006 and now have two sons, ages 8 and 10. Ms. Brown converted to Judaism, her husband’s religion, before their marriage, and friends said the couple is known for hosting raucous seders with skits and singing.

Seriously? “What can you tell me about the atrocities of Abu Ghraib? Why thank you, yes, I do feel pretty today…”

Or “I’ve been assigned to keep an eye on you. The Mossad will take over from here, or I go public with everything.” Brown’s history is a long trail of media contacts, most notably as a spokeswoman for Facebook.

Per the above Guardian article, the IDF/Mossad was mobilizing for Israel-style assassination & terror tactics in late 2003. Rotating Senor out in favor of a more ‘qualified’ spook in mid-2004 sounds reasonable. Then again, that was also when the lid came off.

Mr. Senor now works for the conservative billionaire Paul Elliott Singer’s hedge fund, Elliott Management, and is a power broker in the Republican fund-raising world, as well as a frequent guest on morning news shows.

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It’s nice to know who was behind the Never-Trump Republicans. Even Cocaine Mitch was merely one of Senor’s stableboys. That link to Paul Singer takes us back to why the two collected financial dirt on Hegseth at their NGO.

The shifting political loyalties are becoming a headache.

What the FBI dossier is covering up, among other possibilities, is Pete Hegseth’s close association… and his once running smokescreen… for the Israeli-American who masterminded Gulf War 1. Hegseth is too close to the true powers behind USA… see who & what I uncovered with no insider contacts at all… so Senor ordered the FBI to limit access to the background check with its inconvenient “known affiliations” and makes it publicly known that he has “proof” Hegseth is a financial crook… oh the irony… if Pete runs his mouth.

If Hegseth talks, Senor drops the hammer. If he doesn’t, the “financial fraug” accusation works for blackmail.

As for why they might have gotten rid of Hegseth specifically…I close with tightening up Dan Senor’s responsibility for Iraq generally, and Abu Ghraib specifically

When Did Bush Know About Abu Ghraib?

A close reading of L. Paul Bremer’s memoir shows the President knew details about torture far earlier than he has acknowledged.

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By Ryan Grim, 20 June 2007

In the brief and so-far-overlooked passage of Bremer’s memoir, the words “Abu Ghraib” never make an appearance, though it’s clear what he’s referring to. Here’s the relevant part, which Bremer says on an earlier page is taking part on January 16:

I made my way across the alley from the West Wing to the third floor of the Executive Office Building, where Vice President Cheney provided me an office. Dan Senor greeted me with the news that he’d just learned that a “terrible story” was about to break in Baghdad.

“Apparently some MPs guarding detainees forced them to engage in homosexual acts,” he said somberly. “They made one of them crawl around on the ground with a dog’s leash around his neck. There may also have been women involved, whether our women MPs or women detainees isn’t clear.” One MP had reported this despicable activity to his commander.

I wonder if that was Lt. Col. Jordan.

“We’ve got to get out in front of this story ASAP by authorizing Kimmitt to announce that we’ve ordered an urgent investigation,” Dan said. Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt and Dan shared the daily Coalition press briefing duties in Baghdad. It was far better that Kimmitt carry this story to the press rather than the other way around.

“Do it,” I said. “Right away. And make sure our statement condemns all inappropriate behavior and says people will be investigated and punished.” General Kimmitt later called a press conference, announcing that Lieutenant General Sanchez had ordered an investigation into “reported incidents of detainee abuse.” Kimmitt added, “The investigation will be conducted in a thorough and professional manner.”

Bremer is clearly portraying himself as demanding a swift and forceful response. The reference to the now-infamous “dog’s leash” hints at the existence of photos by this time. After a section break, Bremer brings Bush into the story:

The president leaned forward in his chair, his face solemn.

General Pete Pace gave a brief description of the story, stating that we did not have all the details.

Bush shook his head in anger. “I hope they find every last guilty person,” he said, looking at the group. “We’ve got to punish them as soon as possible. I want them out of Iraq and in jail, ASAP.” Again, he shook his head. “I want everybody to take a very hard press line on this.”

The rest of the passage drifts into a conversation between Bremer and Bush about how exhausted Bremer is. And that’s the last we hear of it or the investigation in the memoir until 60 Minutes II airs the photos in late April 2004, more than three months after the meeting Bremer relates.

Both Senor and Gen. Kimmett disobeyed President Bush.

COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY BRIEFING WITH BRIGADIER GENERAL MARK KIMMITT, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR COALITION OPERATIONS; AND DAN SENOR, SENIOR ADVISER, CPA

LOCATION: BAGHDAD, IRAQ

TIME: 9:07 A.M. EDT

DATE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2004

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MR. SENOR: Good afternoon. I just have a couple of items and then General Kimmitt has his opening briefing. And then we will be happy to take your questions.

Earlier today Ambassador Bremer held his weekly recurring meeting with the Governing Council. This is something he does, as I said, on a weekly basis. Discussions continued about the formation of the interim government, which is being led by Mr. Brahimi. Later today -- in fact, right now -- Ambassador Bremer is having other meetings with other individual members of the Governing Council, including the current president, Sheik Ghazi. These are individual member meetings.

If that is the author of the U.N.s “Brahimi Report” then he’s the globalist author of the Patriot Act. That report calls for all governments of the world to put their domestic military & police both under the control of one man. That way, when the U.N. declares a peacekeeping operation, that nation’s “Secretary of Homeland Security” changes loyalty from his home government to the world government, and poof, a Peacekeeping task force is instantly deployed to lock down the nation. At that nation’s expense, of course.

Skip ahead in the briefing,

GEN. KIMMITT: On Friday there will be a release of between 550 and 600 detainees from Abu Ghraib.

Q: Mark Stone, ABC News. Can you give us any numbers, a ratio of the number of people that -- of those that you're releasing from Abu Ghraib, those that have been released because they've served their time and those that are being released because it turns out they're innocent?

And my second question refers to the command structure of the multinational force after June 30th. The IGC president said today that some of the units of the Iraqi security forces will be under multinational command, but other units won't be. Could you give us some clarification on that?

And going further, how can you reconcile Secretary Powell's comments with those of Prime Minister Blair yesterday? They appeared, in my view, to contradict themselves somewhat, with Mr. Blair suggesting that the Iraqis could veto any decision.

MR. SENOR: On the third point, I would refer you to the State Department for Secretary Powell's comments and refer you to No. 10 Downing in London for Prime Minister Blair… I'd refer you to their respective offices.

He didn’t answer the first question, about Abu Ghraib. Or mention Tel Aviv.

Q: I'm sorry, Dan. Could you then -- you said you've made it clear before. Could you just make it clear again, how do you see the command structure being? Will the Iraqi security forces be able to veto any such decisions?

GEN. KIMMITT: Let me go to your first question, the percentage of persons that were released because they've served their time. That percentage is zero. The number that were released because they were innocent? That number, too, is zero. Persons are held at Abu Ghraib because they are determined to be security threats, imminent security threats here in country. That is a clear guideline established by the Geneva Conventions for the forces that are conducting operations inside any country, for example in this case the country of Iraq.

If it is determined that they are an imminent threat to the security of this nation, then we have not only the authority, but the obligation to detain them, to keep them off the streets, to ensure that they're not out killing their fellow Iraqis, to make sure they're not out there building bombs, to make sure that they're not contributing to the deaths of over 350 Iraqi police, contributing to the deaths of over 100 to 200 Iraqi Civil Defense. So we don't put them in Abu Ghraib to detain them for a period of time or to detain them until proven innocent. They are deemed to be a security threat by a judge through multiple sources of evidence. It's that simple.

If they were innocent, they wouldn't be at Abu Ghraib.

Screw you, general. POWs are not criminals.

If they were there serving time, that would be under the Iraqi court system. There is a review board that is set up that is done far more frequently than required by the Geneva Conventions where a board takes a look at that person's case. And after a period of time, when those persons are deemed to no longer be a threat to the security of the nation, then they are released.

On the issue of the command structure, let me go through that. It has not been firmly established in the post-30-June environment what the relationship will be.

That post-30-June environment was, Dan Senor falling in love with a Cabalist case handler and departing Stateside within a couple months. Marrying in 2006.

Also post-30-June in 2004, General Kimmitt (a West Pointer) rotated stateside to a command posting and quietly retired in 2006 after 29 years’ service. Abu Ghraib’s corruption went all the way to the top… less George Bush being kept in the dark.

Year 2006, when Israel’s Lebanon offensive failed.

Thus did Abu Ghraib quietly slide off the radar… until an apologist for it was picked to be the next Secretary of Defense. Y’know, Hegseth could rewrite that war just by saying ten words during that confirmation hearing.

Which is why that hearing is being so carefully stage managed by AIPAC, that the Congressmen complain don’t even know who they’re talking about.

Postscript

Hey, wait a minute. That “flushing the Koran” scandal was… Guantanamo Bay, not Sweden, WHILE Hegseth was a guard there! (Multiple reports over multiple years. As early as 2002, while officially the Flushing was 2005 long after he’d left.) One wonders, is desecrating a religious symbol what a guy who tats up for Jesus then worships the Jew, while cursing Islam and Muslims, would do while guarding Muslims? He wasn’t charged with anything… nobody was… but it’s not a large prison.