Among the pictures that have led to criminal charges, there is only one where members of military intelligence are visible. It is the notorious shot of three naked men shackled together on the floor. The picture is horrifying, but had nothing to do with interrogation policy or the interpretation of the Geneva Conventions. The men were being punished for allegedly raping a boy at the prison.
Yes, there was poor leadership at Abu Ghraib. There were interrogation techniques that were harrowing -- solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and the like. It is possible that military intelligence officers will still be implicated. But there's no indication that the stomach-turning photographed abuse was ordered from on high as a method of interrogating prisoners.
"Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush," read a recent eye-popping headline in The New York Times. But when the story moves from an account of the legalistic musings of administration lawyers to the interrogation techniques actually approved by senior officials, it gets less sensational. Rumsfeld approved harsh techniques against a Saudi detainee suspected of being part of the Sept. 11 plot, the Times reports, "including serving the detainee cold, prepackaged food instead of hot rations and shaving off his facial hair."
This is a far cry from stacking naked Iraqi detainees on top of each other, a far cry from the work of Specialist Charles Graner.