Abu Ghraib Back in the Blogosphere

The specter of the Abu Ghraib prison is back in the spotlight this week as bloggers salivate over a new article by the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, posted on the magazine’s website last weekend.

The article details the investigation into the scandal by Army Major Gen. Antonio M. Taguba. According to Hersh’s account, Taguba’s investigation into the abuses of detainees at the now infamous prison in Iraq roiled Pentagon officials, including then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, eventually landing Taguba with a dead-end desk job at the Pentagon--a move he considered retaliatory.

The article currently is the most linked-to news article in the blogosphere, according to the online barometer BlogPulse.com, run by Nielsen’s BuzzMetrics service.

For a detailed account of the hellish existence of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib facility before the abuses were exposed, see this July 11, 2004 investigative account from U.S.News and World Report.

-- Chris Wilson