From an NYT story on “ghost” prisoners in Abu Ghraib
The memorandum criticizing the practice of keeping prisoners off the roster was signed by Col. Thomas M. Pappas, commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, and a James Bond, who is identified as “SOS, Agent in Charge.” Military and intelligence officials said that they did not know of a Mr. Bond who had been assigned to Abu Ghraib, and that it was possible that the name was an alias.
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Kieran Healy 05.25.04 at 4:45 am
All I wanted to torture the prisoners was sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads. Is that too much to ask?
liberal japonicus 05.25.04 at 1:07 pm
You know, if they had signed it ‘Austin Powers’, at least I could say that they had a sense of humor. Signing it James Bond suggests that they actually think there is an M out there to give them all the hi tech gadgets that will extricate them out of any situation, but the only thing they got was a crate of women’s underwear and latex gloves.
Tom Scudder 05.25.04 at 1:48 pm
Didn’t the Enron boys (and I use that word intentionally) give all sorts of stupid/clever names to their fake dummy corporations?
bob mcmanus 05.25.04 at 2:31 pm
The initials, always follow the initials
James Baker?
Jeb Bush?
Jessica Biel?
Dan 05.25.04 at 3:05 pm
Hm. Are there other memoranda from “Bond James”? Or even “Irvine Washington”?
bob mcmanus 05.25.04 at 8:56 pm
Josh Marshall says it might be Feith
Bond
pio 05.26.04 at 3:20 am
ya know, one would think that when the NYT discovers an unreleased memorandum signed by a fictional _british_ spy, and authenticated by anonymous sources, one would consider the option of the memo being a fraud. Or, given that the NYT has had problems in the past with unsourced articles, it might even be made up. But thats just me.
Kathryn Cramer 05.26.04 at 4:01 pm
SOS=SOS Interpreting, Ltd., a translation company which has gone big into the interrogation business. It is also the employer of John Israel, accused of involvement in the abuse in the Taguba report. I have several entries on my blog disccusing SOS:
John Israel, & James Bond, SOS, Agent in Charge.
SqueakyRat 05.27.04 at 5:09 pm
My favorite passage from the article:
“He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them,” said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them,” said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was examined by a doctor or given any military treatment before he died.
Such journalistic scruple! I think we can probably infer that he was given adequate military treatment before he died.
SqueakyRat 05.27.04 at 5:13 pm
Oops, sorry for the garbled quote. Here it is again:
He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them,” said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was examined by a doctor or given any military treatment before he died.
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