- Making News: Capitol Hill Responds to Prisoner Abuse Scandal
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld is expected to take a grilling tomorrow in a public hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Today, some Democrats have called for him to resign-or be fired. Republicans, too, are said to be harboring serious doubts. Jonathan Broder, defense and foreign policy editor for Congressional Quarterly, says emotions are running high and calls for action are mounting. - Reporter's Notebook: Prison Abuse Echoes Same in US
When she took over Iraq-s Abu Ghraib prison last June, Reserve Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told reporters that living conditions were so good the prisoners -wouldn-t want to leave.- But things were not what they seemed, and since then, Karpinski has been disciplined for what-s now called the prisoner abuse scandal. In a Los Angeles Times' op-ed column, civil rights lawyer Robert Bastian says things are not what they seem in America-s prisons either.
Senator John Warner's floor speech on Iraqi prisoner abuse (audio)
Senator Charles Rangel's floor speech on Iraq (video)
Feldmann's article on widening prisoner-abuse probe
Meyerson's article on Kerry's Iraq choices
VandeHei's article on Kerry's struggles on Iraq issue
Corcoran State Prison, Justice Department news release on civil rights violations at
Geneva Convention (on protection of civilians in times of war)
Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article on torture at Abu Ghraib
Human Rights Watch report on prison rapes
Which Way LA? exploration of problems at the California Youth Authority