December 15, 2014

And now: hundreds of photos of prisoner abuse

Daily Beast - e Obama administration is withholding hundreds, perhaps even thousands of photographs showing the U.S. government’s brutal treatment of detainees...

Some photos show American troops posing with corpses; others depict U.S. forces holding guns to people’s heads or simulating forced sodomization. All of them could be released to the public, depending on how a federal judge in New York rules—and how hard the government fights to appeal. The government has a Friday deadline to submit to that judge its evidence for why it thinks each individual photograph should continue to be kept hidden away.

The photographs are part of a collection of thousands of images from 203 investigations into detainee abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan and represent one of the last known secret troves of evidence of detainee abuse. While the photos show disturbing images from the Bush administration’s watch, it is the Obama administration that has allowed them to remain buried—all with the help of a willing Congress.

2 comments:

Strelnikov said...

Hope the government loses.....I would like to see our former RoboFuehrer Dick Cheney on trial for his life in a Nuremberg-style court, but he would have to join all of Congress, the Koch brothers, everybody at "The Atlantic", FoxNews, David Horowitz, and most of the Democratic and Republican parties in the dock.

Anonymous said...

One of the justifications for non-disclosure of these photos is that, "if the world saw these pictures, people might attack us."

No kidding.