Consequences for some

There's no doubt this Lt. Col. deserves a court martial - he already pled out three charges. The allegations are serious, too - going native in a war zone is bad, and dangerous to more than morale.

My real questions:

• Why are there consequences for this guy but hardly any for anyone else in the command structure, say, for other clear misbehavior such as Abu Ghraib?
• Why is it that practically all the officers who find themselves punished are reservists (Janis Karpinski, for example), not regulars?

It's hard to draw any further conclusions, though, since the story itself is so badly written (or edited) that it's hard to tell even so basic a fact which charges are have been dismissed, which Steele has pled guilty to, and which are still pending.

A couple of questions:

• Did the prisoner to whom Steele lent his cellphone turn out to be an enemy, or was policy the only victim? (If so, it's a less serious crime.)
  
• Did Steele irritate his command by running too soft a prison? (Yep, a loaded question and not the first.)