Government memos show Abu Ghraib abuses resulted from intent, not negligence

Evidence

As one study notes, “While the proverbial road to hell is paved with good intentions, the internal government memos [collected in that publication] demonstrate that the path to the purgatory that is Guantanamo Bay, or Abu Ghraib, has been paved with decidedly bad intentions.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 745

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the torture-atrocity defense of ‘good intentions gone wrong’ vs. documentary evidence of intent — could pair with the moral panic literature on how institutional narratives rewrite intent as accident.