"Abuse" and "justice"

Four special forces soldiers were "disciplined" for "abusing" prisoners in Iraq, but we don't get the details - "administrative punishment". Reassignments and transfers. We are so about justice.

The investigation began after the chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency protested to a senior adviser to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about the treatment of DIA personnel working with the task force.

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According to the memo from Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby to Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone, US special operations forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq warned defense intelligence personnel not to talk about the alleged mistreatment they saw.

In the June 25 memo, written after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal became public, the DIA chief protested about the harassment of DIA personnel -- including a case in which special forces members confiscated photos of a prisoner they punched.

DIA personnel also had their e-mails monitored and were ordered by a special operations task force "not to talk to anyone" about what they saw, said the memo.

The memo was among internal documents released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Prisoners arriving at a detention center in Baghdad had "burn marks on their backs" as well as bruises, and some reported kidney pain, Jacoby wrote

  Boston.com article