Turns out that there wasn't a lawyer onsite at Abu Ghraib, and there was a ready, willing, experienced volunteer with the appropriate political viewpoints who volunteered.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...awyer_rejected
Pentagon Rejected Lawyer to Oversee Prison
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Pentagon (news - web sites) officials rejected an Army plan last year to send an experienced military lawyer — who is also a Republican member of Congress — to help oversee the unit blamed for prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib complex outside Baghdad.
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I agree with whatever pundit suggested that we move all prisoners out of there and burn that damned building to the ground.
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