An Expert Witness at Abu Ghraib Trials Analyzes the Sociological Issues in Scandal

Closing arguments will be heard this morning at Fort Meade, in Maryland, in the court-martial of Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan—the only U.S. military officer placed on trial in connection with the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

The scandal involving those abuses, which was fanned by the publication of graphic photographs, was a massive black eye for the military and the Bush administration. Yet only 11 enlisted personnel have been convicted of crimes in the

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