Today's follow-up: Former Army vice chief of staff says there was no pressure from Rumsfeld's goons to retire Taguba

I caught up with
retired Gen. Richard Cody on Monday morning and asked him if Douglas Feith or
another Rumsfeld follower had pressured the Army to retire Maj.
Gen. Tony Taguba after Taguba filed his report on abuses and torture at the
Abu Ghraib prison.

Absolutely not,
Cody said. "The reason Tony didn't go any farther, and retired as a two-star
general, was that it was his time," he said. Despite Taguba's suspicions, there
was no pressure from the Rumsfeld crowd, he added. (This rings true to me -- I
once attended a lecture for new Army generals that informed them that all their
careers would end with a phone call telling them it was their time to
retire.)  

As for the
Taguba report itself, Cody added, "Tony did a pretty damn good job, I thought.
I was proud of him. . . He spoke truth to power."