Transcript: Senate Judiciary Committee Confirmation Hearing (For Author of Torture Memos)

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"SEN. KOHL: ...I think the American people, by and large, Judge Gonzales, believe that accountability should at least be focused on people above the level of those at that level who committed the atrocities. What do you think, Judge Gonzales?

MR. GONZALES: I believe that people should be held accountable. ... There was a failure of discipline amongst the supervisors, of the guards there at Abu Ghraib, and also they found that there was a failure in training and oversight at multiple layers of Command Joint Task Force 7. And so I think there was clearly a failure well above the actions of the individuals who actually were in the prison." MORE...