More e-mail:

“Mr Lowry,

I was in Iraq the same time Chuck Graner and little Lyndie England were. I was the logistics officer for an MP Battalion that thankfully was not attached to the 800th MP Brigade which had responsibility for Abu Ghraib.

Our line companies used to drop prisoners off at Abu Ghraib and told us on more than one occasion that things were all F’d up at that place. The abuses there had nothing to do with Don Rumsfeld, nothing to do with Alberto Gonzales or anyone else that high on the food chain. It was piss poor leadership in the 800th Brigade pure and simple. From the unbelieveably incompetent Brigadier General Judith Karpinski down to the section sergeants at the prison, no leadership was exercised…. As for getting orders from MI that’s also a load. MI doesn’t give guidance to Spec 4’s. It all boils down to the leadership of Graner’s unit all the way to the Brigade level being non existent. All the MP’s in theatre during that time knew the 800th was a joke. I am thankful I dont have to sport the 800th patch on my right shoulder.”