12/3/2008 How Do I Listen? Archived programs are streamed in the Real Audio Format. Click here to download   Problems Listening? Try this Direct Listen Link if the "Listen to Show" button to the right does not work   Hosted by: Dick Gordon Show Originally Aired: 8/24/2004 CALL 1 800-423-TALK Investigating Abu Ghraib US soldiers stand behind pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq (photo courtesy of The New Yorker) Email to friend As the tales of abuse at Abu Ghraib grow more disturbing, so do the accusations against military leaders who may have tolerated or even encouraged such behavior. While lower ranking reservists charged with abuse at Abu Ghraib stand trial this week, two new reports allegedly spread the blame higher and wider. One investigation is said to implicate more than a dozen others at the prison, civilians, CIA agents and Military Intelligence officers. The other inquiry points a finger straight at the Pentagon, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Related Shows Reverberations of Abu Ghraib The Connection (05/10/2004) The 9-11 Hearings: Rice testifies II The Connection (04/08/2004) The 9-11 Hearings: Rice Testifies The Connection (04/08/2004) The Fate of Collaborators in Iraq Here And Now (08/01/2003) U.S. Releases 300 Abu Ghraib Detainees Here And Now (05/14/2004) Assessing the Iraqi Psyche The Connection (09/24/2003) Related Links Abu Ghraib report 'spreads blame' (BBC) Taguba Report on Prisoner Abuse (NPR) CHAIN OF COMMAND by SEYMOUR M. HERSH (The New Yorker) TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB by SEYMOUR M. HERSH (The New Yorker) Photos of the Prisoners (The New Yorker) Jackie Spinner, Washington Post foreign reporter based in Baghdad Steven Miles, professor at the University of Minnesota and author of recent article in the British medical journal The Lancet John Hutson, President and Dean of Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, and former judge advocate general of the U.S. Navy

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