from today's papers on slate, we get a lesson on how the administration escapes all responsibility for its actions.
Most of the papers go inside with Pvt. Lynndie England (of the leash fame) pleading guilty to abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib. Under her plea deal, she's expected to be sentenced to just a couple of years. But the interesting thing isn't the deal, it's that it almost didn't go off: As the Post flags, the judge nearly didn't accept England's plea after England said she had been ordered to pose with the prisoner and didn't know what she had done wrong. The court adjourned for a bit, England's lawyer gave her a talking to, and England returned to say her actions were "not only morally wrong but legally wrong. I had a choice, but I chose what my friends wanted me to do."
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