Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) here obtains the firstperson testimony of the soldiers charged with prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in 2004 (including the notoriously camerafriendly Lynndie England). It's hard not to recoil, as their selfjustifications clash with the repellent photographic evidence. But were these lowranking individuals scapegoats for decisions taken much higher up the chain of command?