New York Times Gets Classified Ryder Report

Link here. This predated the Taguba report.

“In one incident described in detail by the senior Army officer, an aggressive roundup in September brought 57 Iraqis into custody. But a review by military intelligence officers at Abu Ghraib determined that only two of them had intelligence value and that the rest should be freed.

An American general at the headquarters in Baghdad overruled that decision, and dictated that all 57 Iraqis be kept in custody. The senior Army officer quoted the general as saying something like, “I don’t care if they are innocent; if we release them, they’ll go out and tell their friends that we’re after them.”