"You can't have a one-person conspiracy."
From the BBC News account of the Lynndie England guilty-plea rejection:
[Pte Charles Graner] said the pictures he took were meant to become a legitimate training aid.I'm not sure what this means in legal terms, but it seems that there will be a new trial for England.
However, Pte England testified at the court martial in Texas that she knew the pictures were taken purely for the amusement of the guards.
Col Pohl said the two statements could not be reconciled, and added: 'You can't have a one-person conspiracy.'
My laymen's view is this: how the bloody hell is this a "training aid"?
FIGURE 2: When humiliating a devout Muslim by forcing him to masturbate, remember the acronym TUPAC: Thumb Up, Point, And Cackle.
Again, I don't know jack from shit, but if there are to be any new charges, perhaps perjury charges against Graner are in order.
UPDATE: Before I'm flamed too much in the comments: I understand full-well the implications of this ruling. It means the investigation can go further and can go higher up. This wasn't the whim of a few prison guards; this was encouraged behavior. If anything, both Graner and England lied under oath in order to take the fall for this whole ordeal. Somehow, they didn't get their stories straight. I only meant to point out the ridiculousness of Graner's excuse. No, I did not miss the point or stray from my bleeding-heart, Jane-Fonda-heavy-petting liberal agenda.
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Obviously she was trained to identify male genitalia and to point at it. She also seems to be trained to smile and smoke a cigarette (multitasking).
President Bush would have trouble completing this simple task.
Didn't you get the memo? You're veering dangerously off course. So long as Graner (and England by proxy) sticks by his narrative, the buck does not stop with them. If England is found innocent because the evidence supports the idea of a wider conspiracy, then we are free to continue our search for culpability in the command structure. Truth? Puh-leeze. Victory is all.
NPR has some good reporting over at their website. give it a listen. I'm pleased that the 'court' found her guilty plea and the testimony to irreconcilable. This should point in the direction of the spooks that taught them how to do it in the first place. I doubt much will come of it, but I was a little nauseated to see these two bumpkins take the fall for policy unofficially sanctioned by the DOD and (by proxy) the Bushies.
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