Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance, featured in the HBO documentary “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” talks about his experience [.pdf] as a computer expert at Abu Ghraib prison, the fake investigations into the tortures that took place there and the betrayal of Senator Lindsey Graham.
MP3 here. (34: 13)
Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was one of the heroes of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the only uniformed military intelligence officer at the Iraqi prison to testify about the abuses during the internal Army investigation. When he recognized that the Pentagon was scapegoating low-level personnel, he also gave an interview to ABC News.
For refusing to play along with the cover-up, Provance was punished and pushed out of the U.S. military. The Pentagon went forward with its plan to pin the blame for the sadistic treatment of Iraqi detainees on a handful of poorly trained MPs, not on the higher-ups who brought the lessons of “alternative interrogation techniques†from the Guatanamo Bay prison to Abu Ghraib.
The Congress, which was then controlled by the Republicans, promised a fuller investigation. Provance submitted a sworn statement. But Congress never followed through, leaving Provance hanging out to dry.
Disgusting womanizing fool, that has ruined his life defending the very people that kill dedicated US Soldiers daily. Its a sad day when a snitch that betrayed is brethern is now called a hero. I knew this coward as a adultres that regulary slept with a many of his female aquantices as possiable and was even confronted publicly for his indiscretions. This man attempts to get what he can out of this old over told story and even has the gaul to post a military picture in his my space account ….wake up loser your no longer a Soldier your a live at home with mommy broken discrace ..Your the only fool losing sleep that a roadside bomber..(the IED you never encontered you FOBBIT!) is a bit cold or is treated like the animal they are. And you applied for SF…what a joke!
Are you that jaded about things you can only accuse of others? What do you know? What do you think you know? Are you supposed to be somebody?
The funniest thing about you calling him a “fobbit” is that anyone knows that anyone who was at Abu Ghraib came under attack daily from mortars, rockets, and sniper fire…not to mention the IEDs coming and going from the place. But you wouldn’t know about that would you?
You sound like a nuerotic and envious person. Are you call yourself a Staff Sergeant? What has become of the Army these days?
I may know you we have the same beleifs of this man funny that the truth will find you out, or in the words of Willie Wonka and he quoted often “It Will All Come Out In The Wash”.
If that’s something he said, so far he’s been dead right, with more coming out of the wash (see “Standing Operating Procedure” on April 25th). Concerning your perspective, you are correct, they are your “beliefs”, and nothing much else. Much like the snobby brats from Willy Wonka, the MI geeks and wannabes won’t make it through the chocolate factory tour…but Charlie (Sam) will.
I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. Then its enemies will approach, and yet it will lie quite still. And then its enemies will take little bites of it, and yet it remains still.
I just want everyone to know that this man was out for a quick buck, I knew him in Germany as well as Iraq. He cheats on his wife, Believes he is the reincarnate of CAESAR and claimed to respect Caligula. Samuel Provance went as far as to have the word CAESAR tattooed on his neck. He is known to be into Vampirism, and dabbled in the black arts (Satanic Beliefs). All the claims above are things I have heard directly from his mouth, the rest I write here is from what I heard from a close friend of his whom now thinks he is a raging lunatic. While in Germany he spoke in high regard of the Third Reich and the SS. He was also seen wearing a swastika ring from time to time. In his final days in Europe he became very paranoid and claimed the laminate was after him.
What is up with posting “hater comments” on a page that was posted like a year ago anyway? Provance is divorced, never got paid for any of his interviews, and in his award citation was thanked for not allowing the Army to become a Gestapo. Hardly the person you’ve described. Maybe you are the “raging lunatic”?
You people need to get a life. Talk about a bad case of penis envy. Provance rocked your worlds and you just can’t handle it.
Who cares? He is hot!!! Those eyes make me want to melt inside.