is a sad development for our country. I don't want to pile on and kick our military as we need a strong armed services to survive in this world. We can only hope that full investigations are carried out.

But I can tell you this - and every service veteran can tell you this. This abuse could only happen with officers up the chain of command knowing about it. There is emerging evidence that special interrogation units - operating outside the chain of command - were responsible. So far this is being largely ignored by the press. Perhaps officers in the chain of command were ordered to overlook these interrogation units and give them cooperation. That is my guess of what will emerge.

It is contrary to their training and code of honor for regular US military officers to initiate such abuse. But it is part of the military justice system to find scapegoats and let upper-level officers who knew what was happening to go free. Hopefully the press will expose the interrogation units and the higher officers who looked the other way.