Darby Does Press Interviews for the First Time

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James Darby is the honest soldier who turned over the Abu Ghraib photos to the CID, which eventually led to CBS and Seymour Hersh exposing the scandal to the world.

Stunned when Graner and the others returned for a month’s duty at the prison, he slept with a loaded pistol. “They’d be walking around with their weapons all day long, knowing somebody had turned them in and trying to find out who. That was one of the most nervous periods of my life,” Darby said.
His worst moment, he said, came on May 7, 2004, during lunch with 10 fellow MPs in a mess hall filled with 400 troops.
“It was like something out of a movie,” he recalled. Rumsfeld appeared on television, dropped Darby’s name, “and the guys at the table just stopped eating and looked at me. I got up and got the hell out of there.”