Pentagon Speak

Today's NY Times has a report on new Iraq atrocities the Pentagon has admitted to. (Why am I not surprised? We've had so much of this, it's tempting to just say, "ho hum.") I found the following paragraphs regarding General Formica (who wrote the report on this) particularly enlightening:

The inquiry also determined that some detainees were stripped naked, drenched with water and then interrogated in air-conditioned rooms or in cold weather. General Formica said it appeared that members of the Navy Seals had used that technique in the case of one detainee who died after questioning in Mosul in 2004, but he reported that he had no specific allegations that the use of the technique was related to that death.

Despite the findings, General Formica recommended that none of the service members be disciplined, saying what they did was wrong but not deliberate abuse. He faulted "inadequate policy guidance" rather than "personal failure" for the mistreatment, and cited the dangerous environment in which Special Operations forces carried out their missions. He said that, from his observations, none of the detainees seemed to be the worse for wear because of the treatment.

Yeah, one guy's dead, but nobody's the worse for wear. If that isn't "Pentagon Speak," what is?