At the Petreaus hearing, Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe said, “Initially, at Abu Ghraib, there were some who did not perform well. But that act has been cleaned up.”

For counter-evidence, see my column at RH Reality Check today on the prevalence of sexual assault against U.S. servicewomen, female contractors, and Iraqi civilians perpetrated by American troops and government contractors.

By the way, Inhofe doesn’t believe in global warming, either.

—Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.