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Retired Army Major General Antonio Taguba, who has been been highly critical of the role of high-level military officials, including then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield, has come out in support of a non-partisan commission to investigate Bush-era abuses.
In a new interview with Salon.com Taguba, who was responsible for investigating the abuses at Abu Graib, said:
Taguba agrees with many attorneys who think it would be difficult, and perhaps impossible, to prosecute former Bush administration officials. A non-partisan fact-finding commission, however, might provide some degree of accountability for official U.S. detention and interrogation policies that Taguba called misguided and illegal.I had a chance to speak with Taguba briefly in Washington during the Inauguration festivities. He is a great American and we should be proud that he understands that there are serious issues here and that "you can't sweep unlawful activities under the table." I'm also proud of the fact that many of the leading critics of the war in the military have been AAPI, including newly-appointed Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki, Deputy Secretary of Veteran Affairs Tammy Duckworth, First Lietenant Ehren Watada, as well as Taguba. Go AAPI's!
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