USATODAY.com - Retired Pentagon brass seek independent abuse probe: "Retired Pentagon brass seek independent abuse probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is under increasing fire for its handling of the prison abuse investigation, as some retired military officers call for an independent commission to get to the bottom of the four-month-old scandal.
Their appeal came a day before Thursday's hearings by the Senate and House armed services panels, which were reviewing the two latest reports ordered by the Defense Department.
'We cannot ignore that there are now dozens of well-documented allegations of torture, abuse and otherwise questionable detention practices' eight former generals and admirals said Wednesday of prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
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