Hegseth Once Downplayed Torture At Abu Ghraib Prison

The Meidas Touch reports:

In a 2007 interview on C-SPAN, Pete Hegseth, the former Army National Guard officer and Fox News host nominated to become Trump’s Secretary of Defense, offered a defense of the United States’ actions at Abu Ghraib prison while dismissing the incident as an “absolute exception” to military conduct during the Iraq War.

Hegseth not only characterized Abu Ghraib as an exception, he also criticized the The New York Times for dedicating, as he claimed, 32 consecutive days of front page coverage, a move Hegseth cited as evidence that the media “magnified” the torture prison scandal.

Hegseth also used a “whataboutism” defense, comparing the abuses at Abu Ghraib to the barbaric acts of Al-Qaeda, such as beheadings and torture.

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