He claimed “full responsibility” for the events that happened on his watch — New York Times; however, textual analysis of his message undoes any meaning to the apology, which was as much pugnacious and arrogant as contrite, telling the rest of the world in effect to watch how the pros recover from mistakes that he continued to insist were rogue activity attributable to a few misguided miscreants rather than the consequence of the climate created by upper management. This is a textbook example of an empty apology devoid of humility or penance. Another ‘independent commission’ is going to investigate, i.e. whitewash. Obviously, after Bush apologized clumsily yesterday, , there was nothing for Rumsfeld to do but follow suit. Colin Powell has already likened the Abu Ghraib revelations to the My Lai massacre, for which there also was no accountability up the command structure; there will be no real consequences here either, unless a whistle-blower à la Clarke or Wilson comes out of Rumsfeld’s inner circle, and soon.