{"id":2242,"date":"2007-06-20T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:18:11","slug":"bush-and-rumsfeld-knew-about-abu-ghraib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/bush-and-rumsfeld-knew-about-abu-ghraib\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush and Rumsfeld &#8220;Knew About Abu Ghraib&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By David Usborne, The Independent UK<\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bush-rummy.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/bush-rummy.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The two-star Army General who led the first military investigation into human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior knowledge of what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Major General Antonio Taguba also claimed in an interview with The New Yorker magazine published yesterday that President George Bush also &#8220;had to be aware&#8221; of the atrocities despite saying at the time of the scandal that he had been out of the loop until he saw images in the US media.<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued a response denying the claim, however. &#8220;The President said over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on the television,&#8221; Scott Stanzel, a spokesman, said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20081011171217\/http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/world\/americas\/article2675733.ece\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David Usborne, The Independent UK The two-star Army General who led the first military investigation into human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior knowledge of what had happened&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bush and Rumsfeld &quot;Knew About Abu Ghraib&quot; &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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