Cover-Up!!:

ABC Reports that there may be a Major cover-up coming to light. An Intel staffer at Abu Ghraib may be blowing the whistle on the situation. It seems that the interrogators he worked with talked freely about their actions. Some choice quotes:

"There's definitely a cover-up," the witness, Sgt. Samuel Provance, said. "People are either telling themselves or being told to be quiet."

"Anything [the MPs] were to do legally or otherwise, they were to take those commands from the interrogators,"

"One interrogator told me about how commonly the detainees were stripped naked, and in some occasions, wearing women's underwear," Provance said. "If it's your job to strip people naked, yell at them, scream at them, humiliate them, it's not going to be too hard to move from that to another level."

According to Provance, some of the physical abuse that took place at Abu Ghraib included U.S. soldiers "striking [prisoners] on the neck area somewhere and the person being knocked out. Then [the soldier] would go to the next detainee, who would be very fearful and voicing their fear, and the MP would calm him down and say, 'We're not going to do that. It's OK. Everything's fine,' and then do the exact same thing to him."

He also describes 2 drunken soldiers being caught stripping an Iraqi woman before they were subdued by other soldiers who became aware of what was going on. It seems that Major General. George Fay was assigned to investigate the role of Military Intelligence in this who matter. However, when Provance was questioned, the General tried to focus on the MP's and steer clear of talk about the interrogators.

Fay started his probe on April 23, but Provance said when Fay interviewed him, the general seemed interested only in the military police, not the interrogators, and seemed to discourage him from testifying. Provance said Fay threatened to take action against him for failing to report what he saw sooner, and the sergeant fears he will be ostracized for speaking out.

"I feel like I'm being punished for being honest," Provance told ABCNEWS. "You know, it was almost as if I actually felt if all my statements were shredded and I said, like most everybody else, 'I didn't hear anything, I didn't see anything. I don't know what you're talking about,' then my life would be just fine right now."

This sort of thing takes a remarkable backbone in the political storm that this has created in the military. I don't want any of this to be true, but more than that, i don't want it to be hidden if it is. there is no honor in hiding.