Colonel Thomas Pappas continues in command of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade - according to today's Baltimore Sun. He is the bastard who has the most to answer for in this whole abuse mess. And maybe he is the guy who should be pilloried in public - and not some poor privates and a sergeant.

Foreign press again provides better news coverage on our news than do American press firms. The Sydney Morning Herald, of Australia, has an excellent article. Seems the Army command in Iraq gave special control of the prison to Pappas' Military Intelligence outfit last November - just about when the abuses reportedly began.

If you are reading this and you have a connection with another Internet news or blog websites, please do some Google searches and post links to articles exposing the military intelligence involvement. If the TV and print-news media will not out these guys, then let us on the Internet do it. You can encourage other websites to post information on this. The Internet now has the power to trump the TV and print media - if we use it.

What is the point? The military police are not the culprits here, as the press is reporting. The most responsible is probably the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade. The press is just trashing the MPs and not even mentioning the 205th. The MPs have their share of blame, but not the primary blame. The military intelligence outfit made the abuse systematic - and may well continue unless they are made accountable.

When I was in the service, I lived in the same hallway for three years with MI guys. They were weird. In three years we never had a decent conversation with them. On the other side of us were the rooms for the MASH outfit for Europe - and we were all good buddies. (This was long before the book that glamorized them.) It is important that the MPs not be blamed for abuses committed by the spooks. The spooks need to be brought under control. They are weird cookies - as anyone who has been around them knows.