Not so fast, General Miller

Salon magazine reported that congressional leaders have requested that General Geoffrey Miller's retirement be delayed until the questions surrounding the "GITMOization" of Abu Ghraib, specifically the use of dogs during interrogation, be answered in military court and (hopefully) in Congress.

General Miller was hoping to make a quiet exit, after last year having invoked the fifth amendment, the right not to self-incriminate, in the case of the two military dog handlers who are on trial for their use of dogs on detainees in Abu Ghraib.

But Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner(R-VA) and senior member Carl Levin (D-MI) have called for Miller's retirement to be "held in abeyance" until the courtmartial of these two defendents has been completed. Sources say that

Miller's active-duty status makes it easier for the Armed Services Committee to compel Miller's testimony if the senators decide to hold new hearings to determine who was ultimately responsible for the mistreatment and, in some cases, torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib.