The General's Report

Sy Hersch strikes again in this week's New Yorker, with his profile of General Antonio Taguba, yet another member of our military who has had his career cut short by the Bush administration. Why? For reporting the truth about Abu Ghraib.

Taguba was sent to Iraq to do a job–investigate the abuses at Abu Ghraib. His mistake was believing that this administration wanted the truth; others (Lee Hamilton?) would have known that a whitewash was in order.

You can read his story here.