The Fall Girl

Zeynep at Under the Same Sun has three interesting posts about Lynndie England's plea bargain. It looks as though Miss West Virginia's coaches had to take a timeout to get her to say the right thing to the judge, keeping her sentence short in exchange for not implicating the higher-ups in the chain of command. Boyfriend and fellow torture modeler Charles Graner apparently has thrown a monkey wrench into the military's carefully crafted whitewash.