Months later, they had "not read" the report. Isn't as if it were written by, say, Novak, or some other journalist. Was written by an American two-star general, on their side. Now, obviously one can't expect them to read every report.

But to fight a war to eliminate the brutality of a Saddam Hussein, and then avoid a report on the brutality of GWB (if Hussein was responsible, I guess GWB is responsible. He's CIC), well, that's incredible.

O'BRIEN: Brig. Gen. [Mark] Kimmitt, who I spoke to this morning, Gen. [Richard] Myers over the weekend, both of them said that they had not read Gen. Taguba's report. Again, and you do a lot of your reporting based on this report, which is a fairly detailed report that he came back with. That has struck me as a little bit odd. As you say, it was done in February. It was released, I think, officially in March. Who was supposed to read this report? I mean, who was it made for?

HERSH: You know, he said that yesterday a couple of times on television, Gen. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. And here, you have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking -- and we know he was involved. CBS initially broke the story of the photographs. And he was involved in holding up the story there in direct contact with the people at the network.

So, here is an issue they knew as deadly. Here he is, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs; the same with Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense. This is a report written by a two-star general in the Army about a very serious issue. I take them at their word they didn't read it, but I really think that's an incredible example of very bad leadership.