Is this the beginning of the trail that might lead through General "Gitmoize" Miller, to Cambone and then to Rumsfeld himself? Where will the buck stop?
But the official, Stephen A. Cambone, the under secretary of defense for intelligence, said he had never advocated a policy of having military guards at the prison soften up prisoners for the interrogators.
Mr. Cambone's role in sending Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller and a team of experts to Abu Ghraib last August and September, and in pushing from the highest levels of the Pentagon for more and better intelligence to help fight insurgents in Iraq, will be a focus of hearings the Senate Armed Services Committee is to hold on Tuesday.
General Miller, the chief of interrogations and detentions in Iraq, has defended his recommendations from that visit to have prison guards prepare detainees for interrogations. He has said those recommendations played no role in the later abuse and humiliation of prisoners by some guards. ...
In an unfolding scandal in which most of the focus has been on soldiers or military commanders, the role of Mr. Cambone, as well as of other senior Pentagon officials, in pushing for improved intelligence in Iraq directly links the Defense Department to policies that may have influenced how prison guards and military interrogators carried out their jobs.
