State Dept: Iraqi Detainee Abuse Not America’s Problem

In the first official US State Department response to the massive WikiLeaks release of classified Iraq War documents, spokesman P.J. Crowley shrugged off the evidence that US troops were ordered to cover up detainee abuse by the Iraqi government, insisting the abuse wasn’t America’s problem.

"If there needs to be an accounting, first and foremost there needs to be an accounting by the Iraqi government itself, and how it treated its own citizens," Crowley added. Under Frago 242, US soldiers were ordered not to investigate any abuse by Iraqi government officials.'

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