How You Like Them Apples
Salon's War Room has more on the discussion of the "few bad apples" vs. the Big Apple in regards to institutional abuse by the military:

If you needed more reasons to believe that the abuse of prisoners in Iraq was not just the work of a "few bad apples" acting alone -- and that not enough has been done to hold anyone accountable -- the Army has released documents (and the ACLU posted them on its Web site) showing even more widespread abuse, at sites other than Abu Ghraib. In only a fraction of the cases did the military investigate and recommend any kind of serious penalties. "Most led to administrative fines or simply withered because investigators could not find victims or evidence," according to the Washington Post. The New York Times story on the same subject includes some of the harrowing and stomach-turning details of these abuse cases that have become distressingly familiar. But it goes way beyond Abu Ghraib.
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And in a report out today, Human Rights Watch says Iraqis are still being tortured in Iraqi jails. Says Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division: "The people of Iraq were promised something better than this after the government of Saddam Hussein fell."