Abstract

The Schlesinger Report documents the latest investigation of American detention operations in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. The report was released to the public not to enlighten the individual cases of physical and sexual abuse, but highlight the responsibilities of the different command levels.
Does the panel under the chairmanship of James Schlesinger find adequate answers concerning the questions of liability? The author states in her paper that the Schlesinger commission presents convincing findings on the liability of the military leadership, but misses to link the abuses in Abu Ghraib to the Guantánamo precedent.
Both detainee policies mirror the Bush Administrations´ paradigm shift in international humanitarian law.