Whatever happened to KP, like on McHale's Navy?
It must be torture to be restricted to barracks.
Military Judge Col. Mark Toole had allowed testimony on the victim's ties to insurgents but cautioned jurors against letting it prejudice them that Mowhoush was a “bad character or evil man.”
Welshofer's attorney argued during a week-long court-martial that the interrogator was operating with confusing guidance from officials in Baghdad -- who desperately wanted to gather intelligence about the insurgency -- and that he had sought approval for the "claustrophobic" technique from superiors, who knew he was using it.
Welshofer also must pay a $6,000 fine. The decision provides a stark contrast to punishments meted out to some of the military police soldiers who worked at the Abu Ghraib prison and were convicted of abusing detainees, none of whom died in custody. For example, former corporal Charles A. Graner Jr. was sentenced to 10 years in prison for abuse; former staff sergeant Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II was sentenced to 8 1/2 years; and former private first class Lynndie R. England, who posed with naked detainees in notorious photographs, received three years.
Now, I don't know, maybe Welshofer's a great guy, fun at a party, good family man, whatever. So, it pains me to feel constrained to point out that one difference between he and the Abu Graib people who got seriously stiffer esentences where no one died, seems to be the fact that those poor idiots at the Graib were so stupid with respect to keepin the toture n shit all secret like. This guy Welshofer only got caught because the victim died. Can't very well punish a man for that now, can we? It's the damn revelations caused by the photographs that required the greater sanction from the military's perspective. Right?
The prosecutor purportedly presented no witnesses at the sentencing hearing.
Military Judge Col. Mark Toole had allowed testimony on the victim's ties to insurgents but cautioned jurors against letting it prejudice them that Mowhoush was a “bad character or evil man.”
Welshofer's attorney argued during a week-long court-martial that the interrogator was operating with confusing guidance from officials in Baghdad -- who desperately wanted to gather intelligence about the insurgency -- and that he had sought approval for the "claustrophobic" technique from superiors, who knew he was using it.
Welshofer also must pay a $6,000 fine. The decision provides a stark contrast to punishments meted out to some of the military police soldiers who worked at the Abu Ghraib prison and were convicted of abusing detainees, none of whom died in custody. For example, former corporal Charles A. Graner Jr. was sentenced to 10 years in prison for abuse; former staff sergeant Ivan L. "Chip" Frederick II was sentenced to 8 1/2 years; and former private first class Lynndie R. England, who posed with naked detainees in notorious photographs, received three years.
Now, I don't know, maybe Welshofer's a great guy, fun at a party, good family man, whatever. So, it pains me to feel constrained to point out that one difference between he and the Abu Graib people who got seriously stiffer esentences where no one died, seems to be the fact that those poor idiots at the Graib were so stupid with respect to keepin the toture n shit all secret like. This guy Welshofer only got caught because the victim died. Can't very well punish a man for that now, can we? It's the damn revelations caused by the photographs that required the greater sanction from the military's perspective. Right?
The prosecutor purportedly presented no witnesses at the sentencing hearing.
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