England's Hearing Stalls on Request for Witnesses: "The hearing into whether Army Lynndie England should be court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib scandal was abruptly postponed late Saturday afternoon after defense attorneys argued that another prison guard should be allowed to testify that military intelligence officers sponsored and carried out much of the abuse at the Iraqi prison.

England's lawyers also asked to present dozens of other defense witnesses, including Vice President Dick Cheney, members of the Army high command and two officers who ran the military intelligence operation at Abu Ghraib. The defense hopes to show that the torture and humiliation of detainees was condoned under the orders of military interrogators."
- posted by geoff @ #