Two years later and we are still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened at Abu Gharib and who all was actually involved. Now the story is really gaining momentum:
A U.S. congressional panel has ordered U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison after the Pentagon failed to respond to an earlier request.
The House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Rumsfeld last week and said the Pentagon must produce a raft of documents, including all drafts of the report on the Abu Ghraib investigation, by the end of business on July 14.
The subpoena follows Rumsfeld’s failure to respond to a March 7 letter from the congressional panel requesting the same documents.
You can bet this will face a massive fight by the Pentagon and White House. What is amazing is the fact that 40 years ago yesterday the FOIA was enacted. This helped to curb secrecy within our government and is a vital part of protecting our democracy from power hungry theocrats. One of the original co-sponsors of this important piece of legislation was a young Representative from the state of Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld.