Mark Kleiman asks the obvious question raised by this L.A. Times article: If this is just a couple of bad apples, why have three key witnesses, including a "senior official in charge of interrogations," refused to testify? Huh? Why?
That all of the prospective witnesses called up by prosecutors invoked the military equivalent of the 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination indicates that key players in the abuse scandal may be closing ranks to save themselves and one another.
