Kendrick Meek: “No, you could not. But we would never, through what the Pentagon has said, we would never know whether the mistakes were…”

“No, you could not. But we would never, through what the Pentagon has said, we would never know whether the mistakes were made at the top. That is pretty much what I am saying. So the way the deck, if I can, the way the deck is fixed now, that all of the investigations that are taking place need to be reviewed or what have you, will be done from the 4-star on down. Now, Secretary Rumsfeld has appointed someone out of his office, a 4-star, that is going to go take over the investigation in Iraq. I can tell my colleagues that this Congress does not have what they need to be able to know what is going on with these investigations. This is actually putting American troops at risk. This is putting contractor lives on the line. And we will continue to see this abuse of prisoners that are taking our Americans that are taken and made examples out of, the first thing that this group said that has connections to al Qaeda has said, we are doing this because of Abu Ghraib, and we are not responding. The American Congress, we are not responding in a way to be taking this thing seriously.”