The Wall Street Journal is reporting senior U.S. military officials in Iraq, including two advisers to the top commander there, reviewed a Red Cross report detailing prison abuse in early November but didn’t launch an investigation into the abuses until two months later. In recent testimony Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said officials at the Pentagon didn’t learn of the abuse problems until mid-January when a soldier alerted them. Meanwhile a senior U.S. Army officer has told the New York Times that the military attempted to block the Red Cross from conducting surprise inspections of the Abu Ghraib prison late last year after it released its study criticizing the conditions.