Soldier: Commander Tried to Change Test - abu Ghraib (Calif.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4212519,00.html

A National Guard commander told a mental health counselor to change an evaluation to show that a serviceman who accused fellow soldiers of abusing Iraqi prisoners was mentally unfit, another soldier says.

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Sgt. Greg Ford of the 223rd Military Intelligence Battalion has said he was stripped of his duties and ordered to see combat-stress counselors after reporting that three fellow soldiers in the California National Guard unit brazenly abused Iraqi detainees during interrogations in Samarra last year. He said the soldiers choked detainees, threatened them with guns and stuck lit cigarettes in their ears.

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Marciello said that after a mental health evaluation came back saying Ford was OK, he witnessed a company commander in the 223rd, Capt. Vic Artiga, ask a counselor to change her evaluation.

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``Something happened for them to take Greg away,'' Marciello said. ``After a short discussion, they agreed to refer him to Germany for further evaluation. Then the following day, Greg was gone.''

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Ford, 49, said he was a state prison guard for 18 years. He has since returned home to the Sacramento suburb of Fair Oaks. His unit, the San Francisco-based 223rd, returned home in March.
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I believe Ford

they try to say whistle blowers are nuts and get rid of them that way.

it used to be that rich american husbands could get rid of unwanted wives by putting them in mental hosps. with the help of paid off doctors.
Flagler, who brought the railroad to Fl. did this with his second wife.

Russian dissodents were often placed in mental hospitals to get them out of the way. That way, they and their beliefs could be discredited in the eyes of the public.

This prison abuse scandal is going to reach higher and higher into the ranks until it reaches Washington....can Bush be tried for this after he leaves office, or is there some kind of immunity for ex-Presidents?

how the sane soldier is sent away and accused of mental illness while the mentally ill soldiers are kept at Abu Ghraib to continue the abuse.