Fay Report on Abu Ghraib (pdf)
b. (U) RESPONSIBILITY ABOVE 205th MI BRIGADE
(c) (U) I find that LTG Sanchez, and his DCG, MG Wojdakowski, failed to ensure proper staff oversight of detention and interrogation operations.
LA Times reports: 4-Star Plans After Abu Ghraib
Senior Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have privately told colleagues they are determined to pin a fourth star on Sanchez, two senior defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said this week.
Schlesinger Report on Abu Ghraib (pdf)
COMMAND RESPONSIBILITIES
Although LTG Sanchez had tasks more urgent than dealing personally with command and resource deficiencies and allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib, he should have ensured his staff dealt with the command and resource problems. He should have ensured that urgent demands were placed for appropriate support and resources through Coalition Forces Land Component Command (CFLCC) and CENTCOM to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was responsible for establishing the confused command relationship at the Abu Ghraib prison.
To become 4-star, Sanchez will have to be approved by Congress. That chance is near to zero. So the question is why are anonymous senior defense officials lauching this.
- Red meat for the base?
- An attack on Rumsfeld?
- A smoke screen to something else?
- A trial balloon to really get a fourth star for Sanchez?