WASHINGTON POST, 4/25/2009 by Ann Scott Tyson - Pentagon to Release Prisoner Abuse Photos
The Pentagon, in response to a lawsuit, will end a Bush administration legal battle and release "hundreds" of photos showing abuse or alleged abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. personnel, according to defense officials and civil liberties advocates. ∴ The photographs, to be released by May 28, include 21 images depicting detainee abuse in facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan other than the Abu Ghraib prison, as well as 23 other detainee abuse photos, according to the American Civil Liberties Union and a letter from the Justice Department sent to a federal court in New York yesterday. ∴ In addition, the Justice Department letter said "the government is also processing for release a substantial number of other images" contained in dozens of Army Criminal Investigation Division reports on the abuse. Read more at the Washington Post...
And this will accomplish... what?
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Round Two: Airing Prisoner Abuse
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