More Evidence of the BIG LIE They knew about the findings of abuse a LONG time ago, what they didn't know is that pictures were going to appear. Do NOT be fooled by this sudden news avalanche, they've been lying about it all along. They NEVER told Congress, they never told you. They didn't give a damn. The EVIDENCE below: From an interview with General Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this morning on CBS's Morning Show: STORM: General, this report which detailed these abuses was completed at the beginning of March. Why didn’t the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Richard Myers, see this report? And why wasn’t the president made aware of what was going on? PACE: Well, two different parts need to be understood. One is the reporting up the chain of command, which was done immediately. On the 13th of January, the allegations by the soldier inside the unit were reported to his Army chain of command. On the 14th of January, the Criminal Investigative Division team was sent to do the investigation. The phone calls were made up the chain of command. I know I knew about it within hours of the 14th of January. And everyone was kept apprised orally of the ongoing investigation. The major general completed the investigation. And what happens with the paperwork itself is that each commander in the chain looks at the work, reads it in detail, does his analysis of what he or she should be doing with it, makes their decisions, and then sends it up the chain. So the fact that the paperwork did not get to Washington DC did not mean that the information did not. In fact, it did. STORM: So you’re saying that General Richard Myers was well aware of the situation and that the president was well aware of the situation as well? PACE: Yes. Billmon, the WaPo, Sid Blumenthal, Steve Guillard, all have it right, in summary Abu Ghraib is likely (hopefully) only the worst of the problems. Credit to the U.S. Army and General Taguba for investigating the mess at Abu Graib, and to the leaker (probably the later) for leaking the story to Hersh when the Pentagon and its political wing tried to kill the story right there -- and as we've seen from the status of contractors still there, not make changes. But no credit to the Bush Administration honchos both at the Pentagon and the CIA who have created a series of of little prisons throughout the world of which Abu Ghraib is the most infamous name. From Gitmo to Abu Ghraib to places in Afghanistan no one has heard of, thousands are held without legal assistance, without hope -- and not all are guilty of being anything other than people of a different culture and skin color. The Bush Administration has had "the last best hope for mankind" be the nation that created a new Gulag Archipelogo. I will never forgive them for it.