Abu Ghraib again

From Editor & Publisher, a journal covering newspapers:
Government Halts Release of More Photos and Videos of Abu Ghraib
on July 25, 2005:

At the eleventh hour, lawyers for the Pentagon refused to cooperate with a federal judge’s order to release dozens of unseen photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Instead, the lawyers said they would file a brief explaining why they would not turn over the photos as ordered in a Freedom of Information lawsuit brought by the ACLU.
Since the papers were sealed, Sean Lane, the government’s lawyer, said he could not discuss the contents. He did explain “that releasing pictures would violate Geneva Convention rules on prisoner treatment by subjecting detainees to additional humiliation or embarrassment.”
So the Pentagon, which has been okay so far with the administration’s claim that the Geneva Convention did not apply, is now using the Geneva Convention to counter a lawsuit under Freedom of Information by the ACLU.
I never bet the farm or my lunch money, but I’ll bet (one of those free bets where only my credibility will be at risk) that some of those photos, or all of them together, would further strain the administration’s stance that the abuse at Abu Ghraib was the work of “a few bad apples.”

2 responses to “Abu Ghraib again

  1. BORING.
    If you want to pretent to expose evil, how about covering the executions performed by terrorists? How about going into detail of how all those little childrens bodies were blown to bits by that righteous insurgent after tricking them to come next to his car. How about the torture done by Saddam – will you cover the trial of Saddam and his atrocities?
    The liberals constant harping on Abu Ghraih, which is more closely resembles fraternity hazing, is so stupid – but ya know what? I want you to keep it up because it increases the contrast of what is important to liberals with what is important to Americans!

  2. BORING.
    If you want to pretent to expose evil, how about covering the executions performed by terrorists? How about going into detail of how all those little childrens bodies were blown to bits by that righteous insurgent after tricking them to come next to his car. How about the torture done by Saddam – will you cover the trial of Saddam and his atrocities?
    The liberals constant harping on Abu Ghraih, which is more closely resembles fraternity hazing, is so stupid – but ya know what? I want you to keep it up because it increases the contrast of what is important to liberals with what is important to Americans!