The Pentagon's ghost investigation

The Pentagon's ghost investigation | Salon.com News: "In spite of a strong recommendation by a top Army general, the Pentagon has failed to investigate the military's role in handling 'ghost detainees,' prisoners secretly held and interrogated by the U.S. government at Abu Ghraib prison and elsewhere in Iraq. Nearly two years ago, in multiple meetings, Army Gen. Paul J. Kern briefed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and top Army officials about the need for such a probe. In an interview with Salon, Kern, now retired, said he left those briefings with the expectation that an investigation would be carried out. According to a Department of Defense spokesman, however, no Pentagon investigation has taken place, nor is one planned.

Kern headed a major investigation in 2004 into detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib, known as the Fay-Jones report. 'When we finished the report, we felt there was an unfinished part that needed to be done with respect to ghost detainees,' Kern told Salon. Based on his findings, Kern concluded that the Pentagon needed to look into the arrangement, between the Army and the CIA, under which the military held prisoners in secret -- a violation of the Geneva Conventions."

(Via Salon.)