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*Douglas Jehl and Eric Schmitt report in the May 27, 2004, ''New York Times'' article [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/27/politics/27ABUS.html?th "Prison Interrogations in Iraq Seen as Yielding Little Data on Rebels"] that "The questioning of hundreds of Iraqi prisoners last fall in the newly established interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison yielded very little valuable intelligence, according to civilian and military officials."
*Jesse Taylor at [http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/002368.html#more ''Pandagon''] comments on May 27, 2004:
:"Some of the defenses of the prisoner abuse I've seen over the past few weeks have centered around two assumptions, one erroneous, one unproven.
:"The erroneous one is that the actions were done to guilty people, something that the Red Cross gave the lie to a while ago - there were so many people in the prisons that didn't belong there that it was virtually impossible for some of the torture not to have involved people whom there was no reason to interrogate (if you can call what they did interrogation).
:"The second part, that the torture was somehow ameliorated by its results, was hard to debate one way or the other. Beyond the validity of any information received - did they actually get any information? According to [Jehl and Schmitt's report], no. In fact, most of the information didn't even come from prison interrogations."
'''Fate of Civilian Contractors'''
