  urlLink Salon.com News | Contract to torture : "In a still-classified sworn statement, she also admits to hearing other interrogators instructing the military police to abuse prisoners, and once witnessed Spc. Charles Graner slapping a detainee. Asked why she didn't report Graner, Spencer told investigators that she didn't know that what he had done constituted abuse.
That's not surprising given her level of experience. " Bullshit. She had experience being a human being , didn't she?? There is no excuse--save severe mental illness--for the abuses that occurred at Abu Ghraib. (That is not to say there is no explanation--simply that there is no excuse. ) The blame isn't all hers (Army Spc. Luciana Spencer), though. She and many of the others assigned to interrogate prisoners at Abu Ghraib were not experienced or mature enough to handle the situation there.
Each individual there had a moral and legal responsibility to refuse orders (or "suggestions") to abuse prisoners. That so many did not refuse tells me two things: There is an apalling lack of conscience among these young people and there is a frightening unwillingness or inability to take responsibility for their own actions. Being a morally mature person requires not only knowing what's right--but doing it. 
