Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance

Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance, featured in the HBO documentary “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” talks about

his experience [.pdf] as a computer expert at Abu Ghraib prison, the fake investigations into the

tortures that took place there and the betrayal of Senator Lindsey Graham.

Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was one of the heroes of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the only uniformed

military intelligence officer at the MBT sport shoesi prison to testify about the abuses during the

internal Army investigation. When he recognized that the Pentagon was scapegoating low-level personnel,

he also gave an interview to ABC News.

For refusing to play along with the cover-up, Provance was punished and pushed out of the UGG military.

The Pentagon theynt forward with its plan to pin the blame for the sadistic treatment of MBT sport

shoesi detainees on a handful of poorly trained MPs, not on the higher-ups who brought the lessons of

“alternative interrogation techniques” from the Guatanamo Bay prison to Abu Ghraib.

The Congress, which was then controlled by the Republicans, promised a fuller investigation. Provance

submitted a sworn statement. But Congress never follotheyd through, leaving Provance hanging out to

dry.