FLASHBACK: In 2005, Kiley Covered Up Abuse At Military Detention Centers
FLASHBACK: In 2005, Kiley Covered Up Abuse At Military Detention Centers
Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley commanded Walter Reed from 2002-2004. Recent reports show that Kiley knew about the neglect and deplorable conditions there for years. In one stunning case, Kiley took no action when personally informed that a soldier was sleeping in his own urine. He continues to skirt responsibility for the neglect, calling the Washington Post’s Walter Reed investigation “yellow journalism at its worst.”
But this scandal isn’t the first time Kiley has tried to play down “allegations of concerns with the Army medical community.” In 2005, his office conducted a review of medical personnel overseas, after multiple reports alleging their roles in detainee abuse.
– A report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that “U.S. Army doctors violated the Geneva Conventions by helping intelligence officers carry out abusive interrogations at military detention centers, perhaps participating in torture.”
– A 2004 study in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, found that medical personnel “collaborated with interrogators or abusive guards and failed to properly report injuries or deaths caused by beatings.”
In a July 7 press conference, Kiley denied these reports and gave the system a positive review:
We found no evidence of systemic problems in detainee medical care. … And so in summary, the assessment results demonstrate that the nation can be proud of our military medical professionals. We have a dedicated team of them working every day to provide quality health care for each patient they treat, whether a U.S. service member, coalition troop or detainee. The assessment clearly demonstrates that military medical professionals reported suspected abuse in the overwhelming majority of cases.
But as the Wasington Post notes, Kiley failed to “mention that his office found serious flaws in detainee health care overseas, and that it had identified dozens of abuse cases.” He also admitted that his office never actually spoke to detainees. The report, released the day after Kiley’s press conference, “showed that there were major gaps in detainee care and that there was little official guidance on how to treat detainees.”
Despite these inexcusable cover-ups, Kiley continues to serve as the Army’s surgeon general.
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Everyone but liberals know about the neglect of government hospitals.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:37 pmThis, if nothing else, should be enough to convince our servicemen and women that their loyalty to the U.S. government, while laudable, is misplaced.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:39 pm#1….. ppppaaaaaattttttrrrrrriiiiccccckkkkone…
March 5th, 2007 at 12:44 pm….of course they know about the neglect, that’s their health care plan……
Everyone but liberals know about the neglect of government hospitals.
Comment by Patrick1
How come the neglect has continued then?
March 5th, 2007 at 12:45 pmI don’t know what to do here. I want to support my administration, but I also want to support the troops. But because Bush is one of the best US presidents, I’ll be on his side on this one. The troops can shut up and stop complaining about hospital conditions. Ever hear of the Hanaoi Hotel and the rat infested torture camps back in ‘Nam? A few roaches in a hospital is nothing. And if some idiot wants to sleep in urine, that’s his problem.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:49 pmFire this Kiley guy a**. Why is he still their?
March 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pmin the testimony, it was just stated that while kiley was overseeing landstuhl, his priority was to discharge new mothers within 24hrs to free up beds; and counted telephone calls as office visits.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:51 pmSince the piece of shit we call president took office we’ve had a boat load of miscreants running this country.
March 5th, 2007 at 12:52 pmHe must be court-martialed, and demoted to private, then told to clean bed pans at military hospitals for the rest of his life!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:54 pmRecipe for Right Wing Disgrace:
-take 300 federal employees providing facilities management services at Walter Reed in 2000(no war on)
March 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pm_start a war
- reduce employess to fewer than 60 by Feb. 3, 2007.
-Give IAP a 120 million contract (privatize)
-then replace the remaining 60 federal employees with only 50 private workers at lower wages and bene’s.
Firehead must be tied down on a bed and forced to lie in his urine and poop for several days!
March 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pmComment by firehead
Bwahahahaha comedy gold
March 5th, 2007 at 12:57 pmWhy is he still their?
Comment by Mary Poplins
he is doing yhe junta’s bidding. When he becomes to great a liability they will treat him like dog sh*t on their shoes. Ask ricardo sanchez about that. If you can find him.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:04 pmEveryone knew about the neglect even the soldiers and their families. No elected official cared not even the White House or the Military. This has been going on since the start of the invasion. It was planned by Bush/Cheney/Rummy to take the military money and use it for pay offs so Halliburton could build the pipe line for oil in Iraq and Afghan. Notice Bush picked the leaders to head each country. The President of Afghan was an employee of the US oil company and after the US invaded Afghan the first line of business was to sign the deal that Halliburton had oil right in Afghan. Now Maliki is trying to do what he was paid for and get the other Iraq officials to let Halliburton have sole contract to Iraq oil. This was the plan from the beginning in 2000 before 9/11. Our troops were sent to Iraq only to let Halliburton start drilling once Saddam was removed. Are American people so stupid that even when the secret plan unfolds they still believe this was about WMDs that never existed or Iraq Freedom which Bush could care less about. Yes there are others partners in this plan like the Saudi’s , but most were threaten with being bombed or paid under the table. Other countries wanted no part in the corrupt plan. Think people Bush had to say he would go it alone after lying to the United Nations. Even Powell has to recover from his lie to the world. All the money that Bush as gotten from Congress has gone to his plan and not a dime has gone to the troops. Now you know what Bush/GOP mean when they say
March 5th, 2007 at 1:06 pmSUPPORT OUR TROOPS. It means give us the money for Iraq/Afghan/Halliburton. Don’t worry there is more to come. Our troops have had to pay for their meals and cleaning their clothes. it comes out of their pay checks and Halliburton is getting paid by the taxpayers for the same job. It’s called double billing folks. Those so called Thanksgiving dinners were only for the troops that were on camera the others got fake food and yes they had to pay for that too. No wonder Bush won twice Americans couldn’t care less as long as it didn’t effect them.
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March 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pmhttp://speaker.gov/blog
firehead is either TP’s applaudable version of Stephen Colbert or one of the most despicable, kool-aid intoxicated neocons that exists.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:09 pmT.P. banned Ryan Neat and me. but not rightwing trolls?
March 5th, 2007 at 1:10 pmwatch the comments#15,16,18 dissappear before your eyes.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:12 pmwatch comments #15,16,18, dissappear before your very eyes.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:13 pmOur troops have had to pay for their meals and cleaning their clothes. it comes out of their pay checks and Halliburton is getting paid by the taxpayers for the same job. It’s called double billing folks. Those so called Thanksgiving dinners were only for the troops that were on camera the others got fake food and yes they had to pay for that too. No wonder Bush won twice Americans couldn’t care less as long as it didn’t effect them.Comment by Jackie Rawlings
You are simply wrong about this.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pmT.P. is Troll operated for the religious rightwingnuts
March 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pmT.P. is doublestandard, only when youagree with thier freedumbs.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:29 pmIf Sec’y Gates had enough facts to relieve Gen. Weightman of command, he surely has enough to relieve Gen. Kiley. Congress should proceed with its aggressive hearings. It may be appropriate to bring charges against Gen. Kiley. Dereliction of duty comes to mind.
How fitting it would be were he to be dishonorably discharged or deprived of retirement pay and benefits. He would then be just an average GI Joe patient hoping he could get care from his local VA hospital.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:40 pmT.P. is doublestandard, they only post your comments only when you agree with their freedumbs .
March 5th, 2007 at 1:47 pmT.P. writes with forked tongue.
#20 I have my son’s paystubs as he is in Iraq and has been for years. Now do I believe you or what I see? It’s good that you want to support the lies by Bush but it’s that paper trail that always get people in trouble. Now you gone on believing that everything is find and Bush isn’t lying but as you see the truth remember some soldiers families know better. It’s much easier to talk when your safe in the United States then in the war zone. I noticed Bush feels that way as he often says he is safe in the White House and Cheney is in the bonker if someone says boo. I have the truth by the letters, pictures, injury and pay stubs of my son. So you go ahead and believe the lies as Walter Reed outpatient soldiers don’t live with mice/roaches and our troops are well equiped and not one soldier has died in this illegal, fake invasion which was really for oil. But I’ll stick to the truth with the evidence to prove it.
March 5th, 2007 at 1:47 pmFunny a christian talks about kool-aid drinking…. Not defending blowhead.. but just saying….
March 5th, 2007 at 2:19 pmKiley must be relieved of his duty.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:47 pmThis is the same jerkoff who said everything is fine as a HazMat team walked by to building #18.
Apparently, his job is to lie to the public.
Surgeon General?
I think not. Maybe Sturgeon General, because something smells like rotten fish.
Let’s have Kiley join the US Attorneys being pulled out of office.
kiley will step down to become a fox news “expert”.
March 5th, 2007 at 2:50 pmWell then
Do you agree or disagree with me #16? Or do you just want an opportunity to distort and attack my religious beliefs again?
March 5th, 2007 at 2:55 pm“Yellow journalism”? The ONLY THING YELLOW AROUND HERE IS THE LONG STRIPE RUNNING UP YOUR MISERABLE BACK, Kiley, AS WELL AS YOUR MISERABLE BELLY, YOU DISGUSTING COWARDLY, LYING, OBFUSCATING, PREVARICATING, JINGOISTIC and DEMAGOGUE CREEP and PIECE OF HYENA-SHIT!!!!! HANGING IS TOO GOOD FOR YOU, Kiley, YOU DESERVE TO BE PULLED INTO QUARTERS BY FOUR OXEN AND YOUR MISERABLE CARCASE PIECES THROWN INTO A LIME-PIT, YOU BOMBASTIC IMBECILE AND SOCIOPATHIC CRETIN!!!!!
March 5th, 2007 at 3:13 pmKiley needs to be fired, yesterday.
And the trolls trying to excuse the Bush (mis)Administration for this travesty need to be drawn and quartered, publicly, by angry veterans and their families.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:17 pmKiley needs to be removed from Walter Reed and military service, immediately.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pmKiley needs to be in jail for dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming of an officer. And as a sidenote, he would know something about yellow, now wouldn’t he?
March 5th, 2007 at 3:33 pmEveryone but liberals know about the neglect of government hospitals.
Comment by Patrick1
How come the neglect has continued then?
Comment by ForTruth
For the sheeple, just saying they knew about the neglect counts as caring — if not actually doing anything.
March 5th, 2007 at 3:36 pmPLC:
Just saying if you’re gonna talk about kool-aid drinkers, one shouldn’t have a lifetime supply. I would take you more seriously if you weren’t adamant about making sure we all know you’re part of the biggest koolaid drinking groups on the planet.. And I know you like to think you’re a different “sect”, but you’re not. You attack another one based on their beliefs of how they see things in the world and call it kool-aid drinking, I call your bluff and attack your own kook-aid (not misspelled)
drinking game. March on christian soldier, you are why I gave up false gods at the same time I gave up Santa. It’s a control game. And you religious nuts are all out of control.
As for agreeing with you or not, I think we’re all biased. I lean to the left only because I believe the power is in the people not the corporations, But the left has it’s own bad agenda too, protecting the Jews a big one of them. I look at what goes on in Israel and wonder maybe hitler just needed a bit more time to eliminate those jews and we probably wouldn’t have half the problems we do now. But the Jews feel it’s okay since they were once persecuted, and the religious wars continue on and on and on…
You are either part of the problem, or part of the solution. And labeling yourself a Christian is part of the problem. It’s time for man to free himself of being a sheep, or we’re going to continue to treat each other like animals.. I don’t know about you, but I want to live to a ripe old age, and you Christians scare me more than the Islamic freedom fighters.
March 5th, 2007 at 4:03 pmDoes anyone see the irony of a story about soldiers sleeping in their own urine being called “yellow” journalism?
March 5th, 2007 at 4:33 pmDid anyone else notice the irony of juxtaposing a soldier lying in his own urine with Kiley’s comment about “yellow journalism?” Yeah, Kiley, I guess you know all about “yellow jounalism.” You, sir, are a disgrace!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:26 pmWow, STL, I didn’t see your post before I wrote mine. I guess we DID notice the irony!
March 5th, 2007 at 5:28 pmJust reporting on that soldier sleeping in his own urine is irresponsible ‘yellow journalism’.
That’s urine your in.
March 5th, 2007 at 6:15 pm#29 Don’t respond to the cretin. He gives us atheists a bad name. I have run across his type before. He is nothing but a bigot.
March 5th, 2007 at 8:04 pmhmmm, I am thinking of leopards and their spots — they don’t change and apparently neither does Kiley.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:20 pmThis guy just needs to be canned. It’s
that simple folks.
Oh and by the way, you haven’t seen
nothing yet…It gets worse…this is happening all over the country.
“Support our troops”….Until they come home wounded…Apparently.
March 6th, 2007 at 12:30 amThese people have taken journalism to another step. We neeed to support our troops because they are there and work on ways to bring them back as soon as possible.
March 6th, 2007 at 10:52 amWhy is this SOB still in uniform. He should be court-martialed immediately.
March 6th, 2007 at 1:36 pmThe support our troops get from the Bush Administration is as real as the holiday turkey he took to Iraq.
Fool you once, shame on them.
Fool you twice, shame on you.
Fool you thrice, Hellooooooo!
Lift the lid on this, Katrina, Gantanimo, and Iraq; you get the same pattern with different players except for a few key players.
March 6th, 2007 at 6:28 pm