People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?
The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized.
Assertions apparently being made in the latest New Yorker article on Abu Ghraib and the abuse of Iraqi detainees are outlandish, conspiratorial, and filled with error and anonymous conjecture.
This is the most hysterical piece of journalist malpractice I have ever observed.
In many cases, we are holding people accountable, prior to people even knowing that there was a case. And that's not anybody's fault. That's just the way the military justice system operates.
To look up and look beyond the treetops.
It's what he does. He injects urgency, he asks questions and he gets people thinking about things and that's what this memo, hopefully, will do. It appears to have had that effect.
What he's doing is elevating the perspective of the leadership of this department and asking: 'I don't know the answers to these questions, but they're on my mind and I want them on your mind too.'
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